Priorities, continued

It's not all that hard to figure out the kinds of things that America values and the kinds of things it doesn't. From today's news:

The President has promised to veto a comprehensive children's health insurance plan, calling it fiscally irresponsible. The bill calls for $12 billion to be spent over the next five years. (CNN story here.)

From an AP article: The U.S. government spent $43.5 billion on intelligence in 2007, according to the first official disclosure under a new law implementing recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission.... (This) budget does not include at least $10 billion spent by military intelligence operations.

The President requests $196 billion to continue the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP article)

... Pentagon's annual $460 billion budget... (AP article)