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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: rich4eagle who wrote (254052)5/9/2002 10:15:07 PM
From: DOUG H  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
These are tough times and there are many issues that transcend politics Rich. I'm glad you can see your way clear to seeing some good in the work GWB is doing. Ironically, it is I who is pissed at the Pres for succumbing to PorkBarrel politics. It is things like this why I'm not Republican.

msnbc.com

Bush will sign farm subsidy bill

House votes to abandon free-market approach
May 2 — With both Democrats and Republicans eager to please farm-state voters in an election year, the House of Representatives approved a massive $72 billion agriculture subsidy bill Thursday. The Senate was likely to follow suit, and President Bush reaffirmed that he’d sign the legislation into law. The bill is a final repudiation of the free-market approach Congress tried to implement in the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act, which was aimed at curtailing and eventually ending taxpayer subsidies to farmers.
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