The President's recent veto of health and education programs included in a recent budget proposed by Congress signifies two things to me, both of which are not entirely new but remain unceasingly frustrating:
1) Bush's veto of the budget coupled with remarks referring to "Democratic" fiscal irresponsibility and partisanship is bogus. The veto is a clear rejection of value in health or education. To paint this as a political issue is to not recognize the sacredness of all people, irregardless of financial cost to provide access to health and learning opportunities.
2) While simultaneously pushing forward with a defense budget that is monstrously larger than the congressional health and education proposal, the President has clearly chosen war-making over peace-building.
The rhetoric cannot redeem the clear motivations that drive this country's political economy and powerbrokers: violence. Unless we refuse to accept the blatant disregard for human life in spending $ 6.3 billion for advancing the technology to further obscure the violence and suffering committed by fighter jets and its patrons, words such as freedom, liberty, and justice remain empty and insulting.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16263477
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