From the AP: “President Bush is readying a new budget that would carve savings from Medicaid and other benefit programs, congressional aides and lobbyists say…White House officials are not saying what Bush’s $2.5 trillion 2006 budget will propose saving…”
But back to (what the media likes to focus on) the inauguration festivities. New Energy, one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of ethanol, contributed $250,000 to Bush’s big day and is “a long standing recipient of federal research funding.” It “will likely be among the biggest winners of the Energy Bill, which Congress plans to reconsider later this month. A previous version of the bill… would have tripled the amount of ethanol produced in the U.S., costing taxpayers nearly $5 billion.”
If only those Medicaid beneficiaries were able to dole out such cash…
Although many Americans were disappointed by the outcome of the election, I (perhaps naively) that this is the perfect time for conservativism. True conservatives would see the value in an inward focus, to cultivate democratic processes domestically- not to spread ourselves so thin that we are unable to count our enemies. Let’s not even mention fiscal conservatism, which was obviosly not present at the inauguration though made an appearance when the tsunami hit…true conservativism is frugality and efficiency, traits held by neither party.