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

To: jlallen who wrote (308393)	10/14/2002 9:05:16 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Good Question! "And there is one question my administration source did not blow away. If, as he says, the Bush team was well aware by Inauguration Day that the bottom was dropping out of the "bubble" economy, then why did they rely on those inflated budget surplus estimates to justify the long-term tax cuts that the president still defends? "We were in line with the Blue Chip (consensus) estimates," my White House instructor said. But did you believe them? "That," he said, "is a good question."" home.post-dispatch.com