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

To: gao seng who wrote (264816)	6/17/2002 8:54:19 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

ALL government budgets are phony to a certain extent. But the GAAP numbers for the 2001 US Federal Budget that O'Neil posted (12 links deep!, with no press release, ha!) on the Treasury's Web site are the most honest federal numbers I've seen in my like... and that's a lot of Presidents. Unlike the '$150B' surplus claimed by Bush for that year (or for Clinton the year before, and before that), the Treasury numbers show a $500B+ deficit. 'Ya gotta give the old boy credit for the guts THAT took... making out his boss (and former Presidents, and Congress) to be liars, and backing it up with the figures.