Grande confusão
Grande confusão
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Bush veta ensino de português
2007/11/15 | 21:10
Presidente desvalorizou iniciativa de português passar a ser segunda língua
MAIS:
O presidente norte-americano vetou esta quarta-feira uma Lei de projectos para a educação e para a saúde, no valor de 600 mil milhões, alegando que a proposta estava inflacionada em 2 mil milhões de dólares. Entre outros projectos, a proposta previa o ensino do português como segunda língua.
Bush criticou as propostas apresentadas afirmando que o povo americano merece que o Congresso se esforce mais nas propostas que apresenta. O presidente disse ainda que está na altura de cortar nos excessos e que o Congresso estava a comportar-se como «um adolescente com um cartão de crédito novo».
«Alguns destes projectos dispendiosos incluem uma prisão museu, uma escola de vela a bordo de um catamaran e um programa de português como segunda língua. O congresso deve aos contribuintes um esforço muito maior. E assim hoje na Sala Oval vetei esta lei. O Congresso precisa de cortar na «gordura», reduzir os gastos e enviar-me uma medida responsável que eu posso assinar como lei», disse o presidente.
Este é o sexto veto do presidente Bush que ao mesmo tempo que vetou esta medida assinou uma lei que autoriza entregar ao Pentágono, aproximadamente, 460 mil milhões de dólares.
Esta é a notícia nos States...
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Bush doesn't like the Portuguese
By Andrew Ward in Washington
Published: November 13 2007 22:05 | Last updated: November 14 2007 00:20
function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3" paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating-target');if(tb.getElementsByTagName("div").length> 0){if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length>= paraNum){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[paraNum]);}else {if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length == 3){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[2]);}else {nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]);}}}}George W. Bush on Tuesday approved a $40bn increase in the defence budget but vetoed a $5bn increase for health and education programmes, sparking a fierce debate with Democrats over spending priorities.
The veto marked an escalation in Mr Bush’s stand-off with Congress over the 2008 federal budget, with the president threatening to block a series of appropriations bills that breach his proposed spending limit.
Congress wants to spend $22bn more than the $933bn budget proposed by the White House, including $10bn more than the president requested for health and education.
Mr Bush is attempting to use the confrontation to cast the Democrats as the party of tax-and-spend while restoring the Republicans’ tarnished reputation for fiscal discipline ahead of next year’s elections.
The president on Tuesday accused the Democrats of behaving like “a teenager with a new credit card” since taking control of Capitol Hill in January.
Democrats said the president’s decision to veto increased health and education spending while demanding hundreds of billions of dollars more for the Iraq war highlighted his administration’s misplaced priorities.
The veto came as congressional Democrats issued a report claiming that the total cost of the Iraq war is approaching $1,300bn, including hidden costs such as long-term veterans’ healthcare, oil market disruption and interest costs on the money borrowed to pay for the war.
The report, by Congress’s joint economic committee, estimated that the total could reach $3,500bn by 2017.
Steny Hoyer, House majority leader, said it made no sense for Mr Bush to pick a fight over a $22bn budget *difference while demanding $200bn in fresh funding for the Iraq war.
Democrats said the health and education bill contained funding for domestic priorities such as job training, health research and heating subsidies for the elderly.
Mr Bush claimed the legislation was bloated with “wasteful projects” including funding for a prison museum, a sailing school
and Portugese language classes.
“Congress owes the taxpayers much better than this effort,” he said, warning that the Democratic plans would increase taxes and set back efforts to reduce the US budget deficit.
Mr Bush’s newfound zeal for fiscal discipline has drawn charges of hypocrisy from Democrats after several years of increased federal spending.
“It is patently absurd that President Bush, whose irresponsible policies instigated record budget deficits and added more than $3,000bn to the national debt, now wants to pretend that he is somehow an exemplar of fiscal responsibility,” said Mr Hoyer.
The veto was the sixth issued during Mr Bush’s seven years as president and his fifth since the Democrats took control of Congress.
The defence appropriations bill signed by Mr Bush on Tuesday granted a 9 per cent budget increase for the Pentagon, excluding the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are funded separately.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007
Em lado algum se diz que se pretendia que o português fosse considerado como segunda língua. Apenas que a mesma fosse introduzida como opção no ensino público. Ok.
É evidente que o Sr. Bush prefere canalizar o máximo de recursos para a defesa, entenda-se máquina de guerra, satisfazendo assim o poderoso lobby da industria do armamento. Mas por aqui me fico.[:vm)]
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