Politics.be - Los bericht bekijken - BUSH promoting programs that he tried to eliminate in past

neruda · 20 mei 2004, 22:32

Sorry guys , ik kan het niet laten maar blijkbaar gaat de interne keuken van BUSH ook niet al te best :

Source: The New York Times.

LIKE many of its predecessors, the Bush administration has utilized government mechanisms to promote his reelection via the concession of federal subsidies to various strategic states. But the difference in these elections is that government officials are granting credits to programs that Bush previously tried to eliminate or drastically cut back, according to an article in The New York Times.

For example, the Justice Department recently announced that it had set aside $47 million to legal agencies at local level to recruit more police. Bush recently proposed to reduce the budget of those agencies by 87%.

The same thing has happened in the health sector programs that the White House has been pushing, even though it had planned to reduce some and eliminate others. One example of this paradox was the announcement by Tommy G. Thompson, secretary for health and human services, to designate $11.7 million to provide medical cover for persons from 30 states without any medical insurance, something Bush formerly wanted to abolish.
This curious situation demonstrates how the president is mixing at whim strictly governmental questions with electoral maneuverings.

Recently, the White House has sent various officials on tours of the country to patch up – at least until after the elections – the image of the enemy of social programs that Bush has gained during his mandate. Thus they have offered cash to impoverished neighborhoods, veterans’ hospitals, laboratories, medical attention programs in rural areas etc, much of which had been vetoed by Bush.

For example, Mr. Thompson boasted that the Republican administration had granted $16 million to 11 universities to train African Americans and Hispanics for medical, dental, and pharmaceutical careers. But, at the same time, the government was putting pressure on Congress to cast aside this program, with the justification that private agencies could take up the issue.

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20 mei 2004, 22:32	#1
neruda Banneling Geregistreerd: 18 januari 2004 Locatie: Belgium Berichten: 1.734	Sorry guys , ik kan het niet laten maar blijkbaar gaat de interne keuken van BUSH ook niet al te best : Source: The New York Times. LIKE many of its predecessors, the Bush administration has utilized government mechanisms to promote his reelection via the concession of federal subsidies to various strategic states. But the difference in these elections is that government officials are granting credits to programs that Bush previously tried to eliminate or drastically cut back, according to an article in The New York Times. For example, the Justice Department recently announced that it had set aside $47 million to legal agencies at local level to recruit more police. Bush recently proposed to reduce the budget of those agencies by 87%. The same thing has happened in the health sector programs that the White House has been pushing, even though it had planned to reduce some and eliminate others. One example of this paradox was the announcement by Tommy G. Thompson, secretary for health and human services, to designate $11.7 million to provide medical cover for persons from 30 states without any medical insurance, something Bush formerly wanted to abolish. This curious situation demonstrates how the president is mixing at whim strictly governmental questions with electoral maneuverings. Recently, the White House has sent various officials on tours of the country to patch up – at least until after the elections – the image of the enemy of social programs that Bush has gained during his mandate. Thus they have offered cash to impoverished neighborhoods, veterans’ hospitals, laboratories, medical attention programs in rural areas etc, much of which had been vetoed by Bush. For example, Mr. Thompson boasted that the Republican administration had granted $16 million to 11 universities to train African Americans and Hispanics for medical, dental, and pharmaceutical careers. But, at the same time, the government was putting pressure on Congress to cast aside this program, with the justification that private agencies could take up the issue. [/b]