Bush proposes a budget to further shake down the poor and the middle class so that the rich will have to sacrifice less:

The president has already vowed to cut or eliminate entirely about 150 nonmilitary programs, including 48 in the Department of Education, that he says have become ineffective. The White House has estimated that this trimming and consolidation can save $20 billion a year...Mr. Bush's spending plan, which has already sparked opposition on Capitol Hill as details have leaked out, is certain to be furiously debated in the months ahead, and not just on strict party lines. The Senate minority leader, Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, quickly issued a statement calling Mr. Bush's package "the most irresponsible and misleading budget in our nation's history." The budget does not provide for money to finance military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The White House has signaled that it will soon ask Congress for $75 billion to $80 billion more in the current fiscal year for those operations, and in all probability a similar, or larger, sum will be requested once the 2006 fiscal year is under way...Mr. Bush did not back off his oft-stated position that the "temporary" tax cuts enacted over the past several years should be made permanent as their expiration dates come up over the next several years. In fact, his proposed budget assumes that the tax cuts will remain in effect, and that inflation will continue at its moderate pace...And while the budget provides for food stamps for some 29 million people, it pledges to reduce inefficiency and dishonesty in the program, partly by giving states access to a national data base to more easily verify employment and wage information on applications for stamps. The Department of Education's discretionary spending would fall by 1 percent, to $56 billion. The 48 programs that the White House would eliminate include grants to states to keep drugs out of schools, and other programs to further vocational education. These proposals are likely to ignite complaints in Congress, especially by House members from big cities.

Don't let anyone get away with calling this "fiscal discipline."