The President's FY 2003 budget either freezes or cuts funding to crucial programs benefiting the nation's 12 million impoverished children. Slated to be axed, cut back or frozen are programs designed to help local communities improve access to early learning opportunities, programs providing child/after-school care to needy families, and programs for early literacy. Even Head Start, which the President has referred to as "the nation's premier early childhood education program," is given an increase so deficient as to prevent any new children from joining.
Aristotle: "Unjust is unequal."
The Bush budget posts a $106 billion deficit, the first since 1997, and predicts exploding debts in the future - due primarily to spending increases on programs for the administration's lucrative corporate donors. For example, the $1 billion per day currently spent on the US military will balloon over the next five years with weapons purchases alone rising by 30%. Meanwhile, slashed or frozen will be numerous low-income family support programs such as Home Energy Assistance and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. The budget leaves impoverished families behind, as it coddles defense contractors and creates bulging debts for future generations to bear.
Aristotle: "Unjust is unequal."
The Bush budget posts a $106 billion deficit, the first since 1997, and predicts exploding debts in the future - due primarily to spending increases on programs for the administration's lucrative corporate donors. For example, the $1 billion per day currently spent on the US military will balloon over the next five years with weapons purchases alone rising by 30%. Meanwhile, slashed or frozen will be numerous low-income family support programs such as Home Energy Assistance and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. The budget leaves impoverished families behind, as it coddles defense contractors and creates bulging debts for future generations to bear.