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To: American Spirit who wrote (51164)	10/23/2000 10:43:38 PM
From: Joseph F. Hubel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Well as much as I hate to, I guess I will have to look it up and post the site. I am confident of the numbers I specified. Gore's was 200 some billion and Bush's was 79 billion. Give me time to re locate it. JFH

To: American Spirit who wrote (51164)	10/23/2000 11:05:48 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

This claim was made some weeks ago and is just not true. The large increase in the homeless population was due to the deinstitutionalization of the 70s when many of the mentally ill were discharged from hospitals and sent back their home communities. Reagan inherited the mess.

To: American Spirit who wrote (51164)	10/24/2000 12:21:31 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If the economy continues on a down path, as it seems to be doing, and the stock market in particular since MSFT went down in April due to the current Administration's DOJ decision...WHERE is the increase in taxes to cover the budget coming from???? Especially if the "top 1% who pays 34% of the income tax" all of a sudden takes a BIG hit in their income.... One of the really good things about SI is that there will be a record of all the posts in the last few years, and all of us will really be able to see exactly what was happening...or not happening... No revisionist history....

To: American Spirit who wrote (51164)	10/24/2000 12:39:20 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The only reason inflation has been under any restraint is that we've had several overseas recessions/depressions/panics during this decade. Latin America in the early 90s, Mexico in 1994, Asia in 1997-1999, and so on. Kick in the 1.5 percentage points that the Boskin Commission recommended that the BLS "fix" the CPI, you have your "low" inflation scenario. That "fix" has provided most of the surplus along with the market bubble fueled by easy credit and foreign money.