President Obama doing what Bush wouldn't

By GottaLaff

Let's compare and contrast. Here's what President Obama is doing today:

Expand the Veterans Administration's number of "centers of excellence" in specialty care:

The Obama administration's proposed 2010 budget outlines a plan to increase funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs by $25 billion over the next five years, starting with an 11 percent increase in discretionary funding next year.

According to a fact sheet prepared by the White House Office of Management and Budget, the president's Veterans Affairs budget "enables VA to create Centers of Excellence and provides additional veteran-oriented specialty care in areas including prosthetics, vision and spinal cord injury, aging, and women’s health."

Of course the Rushpublics will rant about socialism and government takeovers. They're such Compassionate Carls and Carols.

Here's something else they can scream about. Their bffs are now only going to make a measly $200K-plus a year. Waaah!

U.S. to Order Steep Pay Cuts at Firms That Got Most Aid:

Responding to the growing furor over the paychecks of executives at companies that received billions of dollars in federal bailouts, the Obama administration will order the companies that received the most aid to deeply slash the compensation to their highest paid executives, an official involved in the decision said on Wednesday.

Under the plan, which will be announced in the next few days by the Treasury Department, the seven companies that received the most assistance will have to cut the cash payouts to their 25 best-paid executives by an average of about 90 percent from last year. For many of the executives, the cash they would have received will be replaced by stock that they will be restricted from selling immediately.

And for the 25 best-paid executives, the total compensation, which includes bonuses, will drop, on average, by about 50 percent.

The companies are Citigroup, Bank of America, the American International Group, General Motors, Chrysler and the financing arms of the two automakers.

Obama: The UnBush. Suh-weet!

H/t: DAKGirl