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To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (200)	12/7/2002 2:12:55 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1417

end 2048? Well, I know what I've written in the thread header, but I am actually an optimist. Not the "glass half full" kind. I drive past gas stations with the fuel indicator in the red... usually get away with it too -g- Just reading a link provided by KIS on the CFZ. cnn.com So this is what a guy (who turned around Alcoa from BK into a big success) was saying.. Bush, a loyalist especially to those in his inner circle, is said to have been particularly frustrated by O'Neill's outspoken and vocal criticism of economic policy decisions promoted by the White House. The president did not like that O'Neill was so "reticent about Mr. Bush's call for the need for a growth package, that O'Neill was dubious about the benefit the tax cut would have on the economy and had said so publicly," the official said, adding, "People didn't know where he [O'Neill] stood until you read it in the newspaper." a Democrats view.. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said he doesn't want to see O'Neill used as a scapegoat for a White House "policy of squander." "They have squandered the surpluses ... the public's trust in corporate accountability and in the markets, and the opportunities to use the surpluses to protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security and homeland defense," Leahy said. "Secretary O'Neill is not the problem, the administration's policies are," he said.