Orwell is rolling in his grave.

Warning: be prepared get very angry.

Re: the administration's proposed federal budget:

It predicts with Orwellian certitude that we'll have a $61 billion surplus by 2012, even though it calls for extending suicidal tax cuts that have already riddled us with debt and deprived government coffers in excess of $1 trillion, and even though objective budget analysts posit an explosive deficit train wreck ahead.

It calls for a whopping $623 billion in military spending, "including $141 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a $50 billion down payment on the president's plan to permanently increase the size of the armed forces by 92,000 over the next five years."

And it calls for about $35 billion for Condi's now-you-see-it, now-you-don't neocon State Department, "an increase of more than 20 percent over current spending estimates, plus $3 billion in emergency spending related to the administration's 'global war on terror.'"

It also reduces Medicare and Medicaid spending by more than $10 billion over the next five years.

It chokes the Children's Health Insurance Program -- more cash "but not enough to maintain the ... enrollment" rate.

It provides less discretionary funding for the Department of Education than the department received in 2006.

It wipes out student loans for vocational and technical school training.

It "effectively cut[s] grants and other assistance to local police by 75 percent at a time when violent crime is rising nationally."

And, best of all for those needy plutocrats tired of seeing their unearned income socialistically redistributed to the unworthy, Mr. Bush's 2008 budget calls for an "18 percent reduction in funds to provide heating assistance to 5.6 million low-income families."