The Fog of the Budget

摘要

IN HIS FEB.2 STATE OF THE UNION address,George W.Bush laid out the overarching goals of his second term-building a stable,friendly state in Iraq and remaking the Social Security system with individual investment accounts.The President's ambition may know no bounds,but at the opening of his remarks,he acknowledged that a federal budget that has been gushing rivers of red ink will have to be dealt with in a second term."America's prosperity requires restraining the spending appetite of the federal government," he said.