Bogus budgeting builds bad deficits

Editor,

The politicians have a way of stretching budgets. The budget is not figured as you and I would budget our business. Last year's expenses are only a ladder from which to propose a much higher figure for the new budget. A $50 billion expense might be budgeted for $75 billion so the budget committee cuts it down to $60 billion.

The politicians scream they cut our budget $15 billion or 20 percent denying lunches for school kids and health care for seniors. In reality they added 10 billion or 20 percent to the old figures.

They scream about the deficit that is actually shrinking. Every item in the new budget has increased this year.

This corrupt practice is used by one party to accuse the other party of favoring the rich. The tax cuts, which have saved our economy in serious emergencies and which give the working class total employment, are called "giving money to the rich."

These spin tactics really work, causing many people to vote for crafty slickers whose every scheme is anti-free enterprise and anti-prosperity.

Their goal is socialism — to get everyone on government programs.

Ernest Seablom

Ronan