15 novembro 2007

Bush veta português como segunda língua

...ou o português no mesmo catamarã de uma escola de vela ou de uma prisão-museu.
President Bush Visits Indiana, Discusses Budget: As of this morning, Congress has sent me only two annual appropriations bills. One is the spending bill for the Defense Department. This isn't a perfect bill; it includes some unnecessary spending. But this morning in the Oval Office I signed that bill to make sure our military has the full support of the federal government. (Applause.)

The other spending bill is for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. This bill is 44 days late and nearly $10 billion over budget, and filled with more than 2,000 earmarks. Some of its wasteful projects include a prison museum, a sailing school taught aboard a catamaran, and a "Portuguese as a second language" program. Congress owes the taxpayers much better than this effort. And so today in the Oval Office I vetoed this bill. (Applause.) Congress needs to cut out that pork, reduce the spending, and send me a responsible measure that I can sign into law.