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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (348728)	1/27/2003 10:42:04 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Cut the budget, just like the rest of America... ~SB~

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (348728)	1/28/2003 12:17:05 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

15 states including CA have already sold their rights to some or all of the future payments in an effort to get quick cash for balancing over-spent budgets or for spending on political pork. A Yale study reveals that almost none (less than 6%) of the tobacco settlement money has been spent for health care or prevention-cessation programs. N. Carolina used $40 million of the settlement monies to upgrade curing furnaces so they could produce better tobacco. The defense....???? economic "health". Some of the monies are invested in ....tobacco stocks!!!!! Personally I thought that Meathead was going to use it for health care for the children.