UPDATED Tuesday February 5 2008—see below
(Originally posted 2008-Feb-04 03:15 PM)
CTV Newsnet is making me laugh again today. They are reporting that the U.S. budget being readied by President Bush will, at 3.1 trillion dollars, be “the biggest budget in American history!”
The biggest you say. Well by golly.
What budget hasn’t been the “biggest budget in American history”? Have budgets normally shrunk with each passing year? Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention. Is that what they do in Canada these days? Is that what the “news” anchor’s budget does every year? Did unionized news anchors (particularly at the state-owned, state-run outfit whom we all pay with our taxpayer cash) start requesting less and less money in each year’s contract, when I wasn’t looking?
All the more hideous is that this is coming out of liberalvision— these are folks who belong to the tribe that constantly demand state funding for this, that, and the other government entitlement program and newly invented universal social (and “early learning” —wink!) program; and to raise taxes so still more cash can be spent. And then celebrates all of that when it comes to pass, which it does, every single year.
Liberals in this country (and in America—Hillary’s new “free” “goodies” amount to so many hundreds of billions of dollars that nobody has yet been able to tally it all up—see this hilarious campaign video) still think that the best thing for their countries and the best way to get 
elected is to promise more and more spending, rather than less and less. Personally, I’ve been waiting for a party that campaigns on promises of less and less government spending. I dream of an election in which Canadians sober up after decades of being high on rampant tax-and-spend socialism/liberalism, and parties all do a total backflip, and compete against each other with campaign promises of cutting spending and cutting the size of government by a magnitude one-half to three-quarters, and reducing government meddling in people’s lives. (A fella can dream of sanity breaking out in his country!)
The CTV Newsnet “news” anchor, Jacqueline Milczarek, was sure to point out that the budget increases funding for the military, but cuts it for health care (and that’s all she pointed out). That sure explains the whole budget completely, fairly, and fully—no doubt! And I guess that means more Bush is a war monger talk and Michael Moore-esque talk of people and whole families—especially kids and old ladies—dieing in the streets due to the lack of proper health care, unlike in Canada (actually they sheepishly avoid that last bit).
Jacqueline Milczarek is the one who I reported last week informed Canadians that a communications staffer in the PMO was “One of Stephen Harper’s spin doctors” and that he “lands the PM in a swirl of controversy over FAVORS for friends!” My head is still spinning from that one, and now this.
Anyway, surely, if the Democrats are elected, the budget will shrink.
I’ll be right over here holding my breath.
UPDATE (Monday Feb 4):
Interesting coincidence: My friend Gerry Nicholls just sent me an article (prior to his seeing this blog entry) written by a Republican pollster and friend of his, John McLaughlin, which includes, (among other good stats that I’ll talk about in another entry), this one:
…Last November six in ten voters, 59 percent preferred “smaller government with fewer services”, over “larger government with many services”, 28 percent. In the Northeast the plurality of voters preferred smaller government 48 percent to 36 percent. Fiscal conservatism will be an important opportunity once again for Republicans…
UPDATE (Tuesday Feb 5):
According to the great Media Research Center:
President Bush’s fiscal 2009 budget proposal calls for a 7.5 percent hike in Defense spending and a 5 percent jump in spending for Medicare and Medicaid, but while CBS anchor Katie Couric on Monday night correctly stated that Pentagon spending would “rise” in the Bush plan, she erroneously asserted “spending on Medicare and Medicaid would go down.” Similarly, while ABC’s Martha Raddatz cited the call for an “increase” in DOD’s budget, she falsely reported: “Medicare and Medicaid would be cut by almost $200 billion.” On FNC’s Special Report with Brit Hume, reporter James Rosen scolded the sloppy reporting of his journalistic colleagues, specifically how “the New York Times’ lead article on the subject referred matter of factly to the ‘trimming’ of Medicare and Medicaid. In fact, Medicare will continue to see its budget grow, by 5 percent instead of 7.2 percent.”
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