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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (20051)	3/15/2003 1:48:18 PM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 93284

Are the Bushies deliberately trying to alienate EVERYONE? Money? What Money? 03/14/2003 @ 12:05am thenation.com The nation's governors, wrestling with financial crises, have been complaining that Washington is cutting back funding for the states precisely when it's most needed. So, as The Washington Post reports, the Bush Administration has decided to simply stop informing the states how much money they will or won't be getting. (And this, of course, will save money on "paper"). It's another classic from the White House that nixed the publishing of statistics on mass layoffs (again to save money, though the Bureau of Labor Statistics just won back the right to keep publishing); that pushes for a hocus-pocus method of counting tax-cut costs called "dynamic scoring" (one calculates the cost of a tax cut, but then announces it will be so wonderful for the economy it's actually a net gain); that coyly won't speculate on how much its war will cost. The only thing missing is a president who holds Soviet-style scripted news conferences, who refuses to address legislative bodies that won't guarantee him a standing ovation, and who has blue-pencil bureaucrats examine and edit articles in leading media before they're published ...

To: MSI who wrote (20051)	3/15/2003 3:15:53 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Gov't working overtime to keep its actions secret: AP Protests Gov't Seizure of Package The Associated Press Thursday, March 13, 2003; 9:44 AM Government agencies opened a package mailed between two Associated Press reporters last September and seized a copy of an eight-year-old unclassified FBI lab report without obtaining a warrant or notifying the news agency. washingtonpost.com