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EDITORIAL: THE WAR BUDGET


Guns or butter? It is said that the government can spend its tax
revenues on one or the other, but not both.


The fascist governments in Europe claimed that they could do both back
during the great capitalist economic depression in the 1930s.


In the current capitalist recession, the Bush administration has offered
a variation on the fascists' promises of the 1930s. Bush thinks there's
no reason to promise "butter" to the workers. In fact, the Bush plan
cuts social services and will reduce benefits across the board for
anyone making less than $100,000 a year.


But the Bush plan does promise guns and butter. Only the butter this
time is for the rich.


Never before in history has a U.S. president offered such a war budget
as Bush's. The Bush budget calls for the biggest increase ever for
military spending, and expands spending for repressive forces in the
"homeland security" department. Yet it does not include one cent for a
war on Iraq or even a penny for Afghanistan, either for its continued
military occupation or for any other kind of spending on Afghanistan.


Ignoring the so-called balanced budget law Congress passed not too long
ago, Bush's budget promises to create the biggest deficit in U.S.
history.


Usually presidents who propose war budgets and talk about the deficits
caused by war spending also talk about why they have to raise taxes. But
not Bush.


Bush is proposing to drastically cut all taxes paid by the rich. So who
is going to be made to pay? You already know the answer.


It's not enough that a handful of Democrats have made some mild
criticisms of Bush's budget proposal. Something more decisive must be
done to avert this train wreck called Bush's budget. There are already
some who are calling for impeachment of the president. That, at least,
could start to put
the brakes on this coming disaster.


Raise your voice with a multitude of others in the week of protests from
Feb. 13-21 to demand money for jobs, education and health care, not
warfare. And cast your ballot in the people's effort to impeach the war
monger in the White House: www.votetoimpeach.org. n


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