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

To: E. T. who wrote (215224)	1/6/2002 3:37:10 PM
From: E. T.	Respond to of 769670

Let's read his lips....Bush Vows to Reject Tax Hike 'Over My Dead Body' January 05, 2002 02:24 PM ET reuters.com By Randall Mikkelsen ONTARIO, Calif. (Reuters) - President Bush on Saturday vowed to block "over my dead body" any attempt to raise taxes as he launched an election-year political strategy by pitching his economic plan at ground zero of the recession. Labeling Democratic calls to slow the phase-in of his 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut a tax raise in disguise, Bush said: "I challenge their economics when they say a raise in taxes will help the country recover. Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes," Bush said. His pledge -- which echoed his father, former President George Bush's "Read my lips: No new taxes" vow -- drew enthusiastic applause from a heavily Hispanic crowd of more than 5,000 at a town hall-style meeting in Ontario. The meeting was the first stop on a day-trip to the unemployment-plagued West Coast. He was later to address families and workers in Portland, Oregon. Bush also used his Saturday radio address to strike back at U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a day after the South Dakota Democrat and possible 2004 presidential candidate attacked Bush's stewardship of the recession-hit U.S. economy. The president accused Daschle of failing to "even schedule a vote" on an economic stimulus package designed to help the economy rebound from the shocks of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. "Some in the Senate seem to think we can afford to do nothing, that the economy will get better on its own sooner or later," Bush said in the radio address. "I say that if your job is in danger or you have a loved one out of work, you want that recovery sooner not later." The entire West Coast has been hit hard by job losses during the current slowdown. Oregon's 7.4 percent unemployment rate in November led the nation, followed by Washington state with 7 percent. California had a 6 percent unemployment rate, compared with a revised national rate for November of 5.6 percent. CREATING JOBS "My administration has offered our ideas for creating new jobs," Bush said. "I made my proposals to create new jobs and help dislocated workers on October the 4th, three months and 943,000 lost jobs ago. The House of Representatives accepted my proposals. But the Senate Democratic leadership would not even schedule a vote." The national unemployment rate rose in December to a six-year high of 5.8 percent, according to figures released on Friday. But the pace of layoffs slowed, sparking optimism that an economic turnaround may be starting. Nevertheless, Bush is making the economy a top issue for the new year along with the war on terrorism, mindful of the political damage his father suffered as president from charges of insensitivity to a recession after the Gulf War. "We have a war to wage and a recession to fight," Bush said in the radio address. "Defending our country and strengthening our economy are great priorities for 2002. We must be determined and we must keep our focus." Democrats led by Daschle have begun to accuse Republicans of mismanaging the economy as the parties square off for November elections that will decide control of both houses of Congress. Bush was promoting an economic plan passed by the Republican-controlled House last month but blocked in the Senate, setting off Republican criticism of Daschle as an "obstructionist." That plan would cost the federal treasury $90 billion next year and $214 billion over five years. It includes tax breaks for businesses and individuals and a new tax credit to help laid-off workers buy health insurance. White House counselor Karen Hughes on Friday called the plan "the proper prescription for economic security." DIVISIONS HAVE DEEPENED Attempts to reach a compromise over the plan foundered primarily over the level of benefits to unemployed workers, but divisions have since deepened and Democrats have stepped up criticisms that tax cuts in the Bush plan would mainly benefit wealthy corporations. Daschle on Friday accused Republicans of weakening the federal budget, which is expected to enter deficit this year after four years of surplus, through the $1.35 trillion tax cut passed last year and he unveiled a Democratic alternative economic plan he called "a growth agenda." "There's some in Washington saying the tax cut caused the recession. I don't know what textbook they're reading," Bush told the town meeting. The Daschle plan would focus on tax cuts for companies that create new jobs, but the tax cuts would be short-term, designed to avoid deeper deficits. The Ontario stop also gave Bush a chance to renew his courtship of Hispanic voters following a setback in last year's Houston mayoral election, in which Hispanic Republican Orlando Sanchez narrowly lost a bid to unseat African-American Democrat Lee Brown. The event was sponsored primarily by Southern California Hispanic business groups.

To: E. T. who wrote (215224)	1/6/2002 4:16:06 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If foulness is my forte, it is your lifestyle. I do not give a rip what you think about me. Your wish to make nice conversation over this atrocity does not work with me. I could care less if we have one civil conversation, as long as you spout your proabortion mantra. YOU are the proabortionist here. You lie and bend statements to make them fit whatever you wish...typical of your Demolib/NOW thinking. and get off your hate bandwaggon I would love to get off YOUR HATE BANDWAGON...but as long as there are losers like you approving of the death of millions, I have to stay on YOUR HATE BANDWAGON...what can be more HATEFUL than your approval and winking at the deaths of SO MANY?..much as the German people winked at the Holocaust in the WW2 death camps....so you too do the same in the abortion death camps. Suck it up. The following from a former abortion provider. <<I’ve never been able to come up with the words to describe the abortion procedure. There are no words to describe how bad it really is. It kills the baby. I’ve seen sonograms with the baby pulling away from the instruments that are introduced into the vagina. And I’ve seen D&Es through 32 weeks done without the mother being put to sleep. Yes, they are very painful to the baby. But, yes they are very, very painful to the woman. I’ve seen six people hold a woman on the table while they did the abortion. After the abortion, the girls are brought to the recovery room where there are two reactions. The first is: "I’ve killed my baby" prolifeaction.org