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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (353215)	2/4/2003 3:45:19 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You should recognize that your extremely hostile posting style is what provokes paranoia and the bad things happening to you. Justified or not, you created the consequences for yourself. Actually, you should go back to your first post to me. It was an insult - and not a clever one at that, which would at least have made it amusing. But you have a lot of competition in that field. It is hard to make good insults when your writing style is so incapable. Considering many people have mentally disabled relatives, only a jackass would use the word "retard" in a political post to make some point, irrespective of their POV. This is a good way to be a feces-magnet. Then you have the audacity whine and threaten SI about what happens to you when you do this - so really, who is stupid here? I've not got much more to say to you other than you've demonstrated you are knowledgeable in one area, but an ignoramus in almost every other.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (353215)	2/4/2003 6:45:59 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

According to the White House's calculations, the proposed budget will produce a deficit of $304 billion this year and $307 billion in '04. The papers all point out that those numbers are almost certainly too rosy since they don't take into account war with Iraq, rebuilding that country, or Bush's proposed tax cuts. Among the programs that get slashed in the budget: the EPA's clean-water fund, a Clinton-era effort to put more cops on the streets, and a decade-old program to upgrade public housing. The papers all seem a bit surprised by the audaciousness of the budget. A stuffed WP "news analysis" calls it evidence that Bush has essentially dropped his "compassionate conservatism" and instead signed on to the Reagan Revolution of tax cuts, deficits, and limited domestic spending. The LAT news piece on the budget also invokes the Gipper. The NYT editorial page isn't a huge fan of the budget, calling it "an act of buck-passing and procrastination." That's love-talk compared to the Post's editorial on the White House's proposed personal savings accounts, which were formally unveiled in the budget. Calling them a "Trojan horse" tax cuts for the rich, the Post says that the proposals, which would allow people to stash away tax-free thousands in investment income, are further "indications of this administration's recklessness when it comes to the future fiscal health of the nation." The Wall Street Journal's editorial page thinks its competitors should chill out; it calls worries about the deficit needless "moaning." slate.msn.com