text: what is bush doing to the environment!!??? the bush administration's fy2006 budget proposal  president bush claims to be a "steward of the land", but his fy 2006 budget request significantly shortchanges american conservation and environmental programs and threatens the future of our national heritage.  here's a quick rundown of the numbers:  $450 million cut from the environmental protection agency's budget (6% of the agency's total budget), including $300 million slashed from the clean water state revolving loan fund, which is used to improve sewage treatment plants. the president's budget fails to reinstate the superfund fee, continuing the shift of clean up from corporate polluters to local taxpayers. the administration's budget eliminates the stateside land and water conservation fund (lwcf) program altogether.  over the past forty years, this grant has provided desperately needed funding to help preserve open space and develop recreational facilities for state and local parks. you are right, totally... it is an absolute disregard for the environment.  the bush administration in 2003 effectively gutted the ‘no net loss’ of wetlands policy initiated during the administration of the elder bush.  wetlands help reduce the power of hurricanes and storm surges.  wetlands were largely missing when katrina struck, and contributed to the devastating effects of that so-called antural disaster...  lets see - destroy the wetlands, don't fix the levees, duh... that is almost as obvious as - "i think the memo said something like bin laden determined to strike in u.s"    we need to change -   we must transform human social relations so that production (and the technology accompanying it) develops in a planned manner that takes into account human need and, by extension, the care of the natural environment upon which human needs depend.  ciao