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March 12, 2007
Federal Budget short change Rural America
The FY 2008 budget submitted by the Bush Administration again short changed Rural America. This is rather astounding considering that it was Rural America that has provided the Bush Administration with it's electoral college majorities.
The Center for Rural Affairs has outlined some of the major problems with this budget in its most recent newsletter. Rather than repeat that analysis, I would rather suggest that this administration will look for every place where they can cut expenditures in the budget to support their quixotic quest for reaching our Manifest Destiny.
There needs to be a Green Party critique of current policies. As an issue, it will not gain much press. However, such a critique can become useful for organizing rural counties. If Greens can put forward practical solutions for the problems that this administration is failing to address, then we would be one up on the Democrats.
Hopefully, we can have the time to use this space to begin the definition of that critique.
Posted by Wes at 06:36 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack