Most Vdare readers are aware that the Bush budget massively reduced the Congressional level of Border Patrol increases from 2,000 yearly to 210. In addition, the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which reimburses states for illegal alien incarceration costs—aka SCAAP—has been sent to the scrap heap.

But some items chosen for Bush largesse should also raise eyebrows for the concerned taxpayer. Here are a selected few:

• Mexico is receiving $5 million to "improve the justice system" around Juarez, particularly to help solve the brutal murders of hundreds of women. However, other American efforts around this human rights disaster in 2002 and 2003 came up zero. Of course, Mexico Is Rich, and could easily afford its own police work.
• Washington proposes to provide Palestinian terrorists with retirement money, as part of a $350 million package to the ultra-corrupt Palestinian Authority. Retired murderers will receive $100 per month under the Bush plan.
• The current commitment of $350 million for tsunami aid apparently isn't generous enough for the world's superpower, so Bush is requesting another $600, bringing the total to $950 million. (National Debt Clock.)

And for a final blow, Bush is pulling the plug on one of the few government endeavors which can truly be called inspiring, the Hubble Space Telescope.