The wrong choice

Some of Bush’s 2008 budget cuts:

– $223 million in funding cuts (4 percent decrease from this year’s levels) to the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

– $100 million cut for Head Start, which provides child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families.

– "$2.4 billion cut in community and regional development grants — which often provide funding for low- and middle-income communities — to $16.5 billion from $18.9 billion.

– $400 million — 18 percent — cut in the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, “which provides $2.2 billion to help people pay heating bills this year.”

– $172 million — nearly 25 percent — cut in funding for housing for low-income seniors.

Some tough choices on where we can cut down on our spending...CHIPs, Head Start, heating assistance....If you added up those five proposed cuts by Bush, $3.3 billion, it would equal what he's spending every 10 days in Iraq.

That's the crux of George W Bush - The wrong choice.
(h/t TP)