El gasto para la guerra puesto sobre otras prioridades

Claiming the mantle of fiscal discipline, President Bush has threatened to veto spending bills that exceed his budget request, even though Congress's non-defense appropriations bills approximately keep pace with economic growth. Meanwhile, the administration has asked for significant increases in both war appropriations and regular defense appropriations for 2008. Defense spending, which rose from 3.0% of GDP when Bush came into office in 2001 to 4.0% in 2005-07, will resume its upward climb to 4.3-5.0% of GDP in 2008 if Congress agrees to the president's request.

Si no lo estuviera leyendo, no lo creería. Exactamente lo que está ocurriendo en México, sometiéndose a la presión de EU, y prometiendo gastar $7,000 millones de dólares en los siguientes 3 años. No en educación, no en seguridad pública o social, no en infraestructura. En armas para la "guerra" contra el narco. ¿Quién se beneficia?