The Outrageous 2004 Federal Budget

The Debt to the Penny

10/31/2003	$6,872,675,839,106.67
10/30/2003	$6,860,382,879,862.78
10/28/2003	$6,850,042,548,549.47
10/24/2003	$6,847,437,986,849.37
10/22/2003	$6,834,787,133,873.25
10/14/2003	$6,816,232,489,123.39

Source: Public Debt at Treasury

"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." G. Gordon Liddy

Source: NotableNewsNow@freecongress.org, 11/4/03

Table 1. Spending by Department
Percent Change in Real Outlays in First Three Years
Department	Reagan	Bush
Agriculture	-13.2%	8.5%
Commerce	-29.0%	9.6%
Defense	18.6%	27.6%
Education	-21.8%	60.8%
Energy	-19.6%	22.4%
Health & Human Services	9.0%	21.4%
Housing & Urban Dev.	-3.7%	6.1%
Interior	-4/6%	23.4%
Justice	1.2%	11.0%
Labor	-29.4%	56.0%
State	9.5%	32.5%
Transportation	-13.0%	-1.3%
Treasury	31.1%	-7.0%
Veteran Affairs	-3.9%	29.4%
Total Outlays	6.8%	15.6%
Sources: Budget of the U.S. Government and Mid-Session Review for FY2004

"The administration recently released its mid-session review of the federal budget for fiscal 2004, The new data reveal that discretionary outlays will rise a stunning 16.9 percent in FY2003, having risen 13.1 percent in FY2002.…

"[O]ne way to evaluate fiscal priorities is to compare budgets as originally proposed by Reagan and Bush. In each of Bush’s three budgets, he has proposed increases in total federal outlays above baseline levels. In his FY2002 budget, he asked for $43 billion over 10 years to ‘reform’ education and $153 billion over 10 years to ‘reform’ Medicare. He got his big education increase, and his FY2004 budget pushed up his Medicare request to $400 billion. …"

"Bush has not vetoed a single spending bill during his tenure in office. Instead, he has signed every bill crossing his desk including huge education and farm subsidy bills. By contrast, President Reagan vetoed 22 bills during his first three years in office.

"Bush has also benefited from a more favorable party arrangement in Congress than Reagan. Although Republicans controlled the Senate during Reagan’s first term, Democrats dominated the House. Bush has had a GOP-controlled House and Senate (with the exception of the period from mid-2001 to the end of 2002). … Unfortunately, Bush has thus far shown no leadership on spending reform even though he enjoys strong support from the majority in Congress." Source: Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven, Cato Institute’s Tax & Budget Bulletin, August 2003

"For the past several years, USAID, run by the U.S. State Department, has awarded multimillion dollar grants to promote homosexuality and promiscuity to teens throughout Central and South America, and Africa.

"In USAID-funded programs throughout Central America, children and teens are targeted with pamphlets and advertisements of colored and flavored condoms which depict the faces of young boys and children as young as seven years of age (cf. Y, Como No se Pasa, Fundacion Fomento en Salud, Honduras)."

"USAID-funded condom billboards appear in newspapers and on billboards overseas, in violation of local laws which require information about risks. In family planning clinics throughout Central America and Africa, IUDs and Depo-Provera are promoted to teens and women without adequate information about risks, in violation of informed consent provisions of U.S. law. In Honduras, IUDs are provided to anemic women without informed consent, and massive sterilization programs are promoted in government hospitals."

"In Honduras, a USAID manual titled, Speaking About Sexuality With Young People, is aimed at getting ‘boys and girls’ to ‘acknowledge the existence of homosexuality in the population.’

"According to this USAID manual, promoted in schools throughout Honduras, homosexuality fulfills an important role in the sexual socialization of youngsters. ‘Youngsters today have to recognize the existence of male and female homosexuality.’ "

"In a section of the manual titled ‘Talking About Sexuality With Youngsters,’ teachers are encouraged to ask ten-year-old children: ‘If you have never had sex with a person of the same sex, how do you know if you would prefer it?’ Homosexuals such as Oscar Wilde are promoted as heroes, and photos of transvestites are provided to children."

"The manual is part of USAID’s AIDSCAP program, implemented in over 30 developing countries by highly funded population control groups including Family Health International (FHI).

"FHI is one of USAID’s oldest and most highly funded population control NGOs. According to USAID, FHI ‘improves reproductive health’ among people ten to 24 years old (HIV/AIDS Partnerships, USAID, Global Health Bureau). FHI also promotes programs designed to provide lubricants for men who have sex with other men (‘HIV/AIDS Interventions With Men Who Have Sex With Men,’ Family Health International, 2003)."

"Most people would agree that promoting homosexuality and distributing graphic sexual material to children as young as ten years old is wrong. Most taxpayers would be alarmed to know that U.S. funds are paying for these programs. But FHI has been aggressively promoting sexual material, including material on homosexuality, to children for years.

"In 2001, FHI received $85 million from USAID to promote sex education to children and teens (‘USAID Award to FHI Promotes Youth Reproductive Health,’ Family Health International, October 2, 2001). FHI’s program, titled YouthNet, provides IUDs, contraceptive pills, and Depo-Provera to children as young as ten years old in developing nations. Post-abortion care (a euphemism for manual vacuum abortion) is also available to children."

"USAID’s YouthNet program is designed to destroy genuine faith-based abstinence initiatives, and integrate programs for teens and children into already-existing adult HIV/AIDS/Sexual and Reproductive Health programs throughout the world. Where genuine faith-based groups strive to promote abstinence to teens, FHI seeks to ‘go beyond traditional children’s religious education to address sexual behaviors explicitly’ (‘Faith-Based Programs for Youth,’ Family Health International, 2003)." Source: Steven W. Mosher, The Wanderer, 8/14/03, p. 9