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To: hmaly who wrote (134322)	3/8/2001 12:00:40 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574978

Obviously, the problem is that the Treasury economists, all of whom belong to the civil service and cannot be fired, will not produce suitable data regarding the administration's plans. This was a perfectly predictable problem that the Bush administration should have been prepared to deal with on Jan. 20. Harry, The man's perspective in the article is highly suspect when he makes a statement like the one above. It is true that it is more difficult to fire a gov't employee with tenure but it does happen especially if they were to refuse to perform a work assignment given by the president. I think there must be some other reason why Bush is not countering the argument that his tax cut will aid the rich......maybe because it does. It was also said on the news last nite that apparently there is not enough $$$ to provide the tax cut and maintain spending at current levels so certain depts are being cut in Bush's budget [which was actually prepared by Cheney]. <g> ted