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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (6524)	12/21/2000 1:36:46 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 6710

CB - ...Smuggling sounds scandalous, but it's really the free market in action. Yes. I believe that I read somewhere that England's rise to becoming the world's leading economic power was not due to its official mercantile economic system, but rather to its governmental inefficiency in dealing with illegal smuggling, presumably as the government officials were also its beneficiaries. Regards, Don

To: Ilaine who wrote (6524)	12/21/2000 3:05:49 PM
From: chomolungma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

Clinton's already blaming Bush for the upcoming recession and he's still got a month to go. Senior Clinton administration officials angrily charged that top members of President-elect George W. Bush's team were "talking down" the economy in a campaign for tax cuts that could backfire by spreading self-fulfilling fears of a sharp slump. "What you're seeing is President-elect Bush and his team actually talking down our economy, actually probably injecting more fear and anxiety into the economy than is justified," said Gene Sperling, a White House economic adviser.