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

To: Neocon who wrote (172251)	8/17/2001 12:00:11 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Why can't I go to a random sports bar to get a random sample. vote.com is a website that random people can go to to express an opinion. It is a fair sampling on a particular issue. Any can raise all sorts of objection to any sampling. I understand the bias or lack of bias of vote.com. I cannot speak to what kinds or errors or bias occur in the so called random sampling of polling organizations. If someone wants to rant and rail about some issue because of some poll, fine. All polls are created equal in their import of a discussion of issues. Some on this thread wish to use invented numbers from their mind??? to make a point. I use a number from vote.com that is real and what and how it came to be is clear to all. vote.com represents an informed opinion. Far more so than randomly calling anyone for an accidental interview. So I would rather know what informed folks know over the ignorant masses. tom watson tosiwmee

To: Neocon who wrote (172251)	8/17/2001 12:17:02 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

The Buzz: The Incredible Shrinking Surplus Thursday, August 16, 2001 FOX NEWS The Bush administration will soon announce that the federal budget surplus outside Social Security will be next to nothing by the end of this year and the political battle over who is to blame has already begun. While a slowing U.S. economy has knocked corporate tax receipts down by an estimated $40 billion, congressional Democrats charge that President Bush’s tax cut — which sent $74 billion back to taxpayers — was too hasty. The White House argues that last-minute spending deals between the Congress and President Clinton last fall drained another $34.5 billion out of the surplus. Asked whether the Bush tax plan caused the evaporation of the surplus, Lawrence Lindsey, special assistant to the president for economic policy, responded that the tax cut "is there to stimulate an economy that has been declining rapidly for over a year." "If we didn't have that tax cut, we would be in much, much worse shape," Lindsey added. "The tax cut is there to sustain the economy to keep money in people's pockets. So that that this economy can grow again." But Gene Sperling, former President Clinton's top economic advisor, places the blame squarely on the Bush administration’s tax cut.