NyTimes today:
House Passes a $2.7 Trillion Spending Plan
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: May 18, 2006
The measure calls for increasing military spending by 7 percent, to nearly $558 billion in 2007, a figure that includes $50 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The package would essentially freeze or cut spending on most domestic discretionary programs, including education, energy and national parks, and it calls for trimming $6.8 billion over five years from entitlement programs like Medicaid and farm subsidies.

Is it possible that one can be a moral person and "fiscally conservative." How do these ideals fall short of outright gluttony? I must surround myself with republicans. I need to become a mole. Become immersed in the enemy. There is no education without challenge. My fucking public health education. Surrounded by bleeding hearts and bandanas. And the token republican. Kyden "Oklohoma" Creekpaum. Sooner. Sooner be dead than caught helping a welfare recipient. Man thinks Walmart is second only to fire in the endlessness of its value to mankind. I need to find some smart republicans. Sooner than later.