Keyword: Projected Budget Deficits

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Recognizing that the Iraq War he launched may signify his political kiss of death, George W. Bush chases around the U.S.A. in Air force One, fantasizing he can boast about his tax cuts for the rich putting us all on an economic flight to the American dream.  

Reality must kick in sooner or later with the result of kicking Bush and his robot followers out of office; hopefully before we collapse under the horrifying weight of the national debt his spending spree has hit us with.  

The projected federal budget deficit from the Congressional Budget Office for 2006 was $260 billion while the proposed budget deficit for 2007 was $2.8.  The question experts are asking is whether it can be cut.

A generous Congress in 2005 approved special interest projects, meaning pork barrel related, in the amount of $15,877,000,000 while $439.3 billion was allocated in the 2007 budget for the Department of Defense, the major amount of which concerns the Iraq War.  

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