Budget buzz words: "new," "billion," "health"

Certain key words pop up repeatedly in President Barack Obama's initial budget proposal and they are telling: "new," "billion," "health," "increase," and "million." He used versions of those words more than one thousand times in just 134 pages.

But "Osama Bin Laden," "fault" and "blame" could not be found.

If repetition is a form of emphasis and repeated word usage is a glimpse into a president's priorities, the Obama document shows a dramatic departure from his predecessor. For example, Obama used the words "science" and "climate" 40 and 37 times, respectively, but "terror" was mentioned only 29 times and "war," 16. A version of the word "tax" was mentioned 136 times and "energy" 131 times, but "homeland" 15 times and "Sept. 11, 2001," only once.

Here are the counts of certain words in the budget document:

- New: 246

- Billion: 235

- Health, healthy or unhealthy: 232

- Increase or increased: 202

- Million: 150

- Tax, taxes or taxation: 136

- Energy: 131

- Economy: 113

- Veteran: 66

- Jobs: 65

- Credit: 61

- Housing: 54

- Medicare: 52

- Debt or debtor: 49

- Infrastructure: 48

- Taxpayer: 47

- Deficit: 47

- Insurance: 45

- Global warming, climate change, climate crisis or other climate: 41

- Efficient: 40

- Science: 40

- Environment: 37

- Employment: 37

- Cut or cuts: 36

- Social Security: 31

- Medicaid: 31

- Terror: 29

- Defense: 26

- Disaster: 26

- Crisis or crises: 25

- Iraq: 22

- Coverage: 22

- Unemployment: 20

- Inherit, inherited or inheriting: 19

- Afghanistan: 19

- War: 16

- Mortgage: 13

- Trillion: 10

- Earmark: 8

- Entitlement: 6

- Hope: 3

- Meltdown: 3

- Bankruptcy: 3

- Decrease: 3

- Wall Street: 2

- Foreclosure: 2