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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ksuave who wrote (48002)	10/17/2000 11:34:57 PM
From: Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

. And, of course, Mr. Gore once again reminded viewers that his government-reinvention project has "reduced the size of government by more than 300,000 people." Well, as it happens, according to page 280 in the Historical Tables of the administration's 2001 budget proposal, the Department of Defense accounts for 286,000 — or 94 percent — of the 305,000 fewer government employees on the federal payroll in 1999 compared to 1992. Leave it to Al Gore to decimate the Pentagon and then claim credit for reducing the federal bureaucracy. washtimes.com