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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (3338)	8/26/2003 8:19:48 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

A few updates from the disaster that is the Bush regime: The total number of U.S. troops killed since Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1 - 140 -- now exceeds the number killed in Iraq during the six weeks of fighting before that - 138. -- The U.S. government is on pace to record the largest budget deficit in its history next year, and one significantly wider than the Bush administration predicted last month, the Congressional Budget Office said. The nonpartisan CBO estimated the government deficit will be $480 billion next year, and could rise to a deficit of $1.4 trillion over the next decade. And this is without predictions for the cost of war and reconstruction in Iraq or new spending programs that are in the works, like the $400 billion Medicare prescription-drug plan Congress is struggling with now. The forecast would come in well above the current record deficit of $290.4 billion, which was set in 1992, by George the First. --- The Nigerian government warned multinational companies doing business there, that they must pay taxes based on the federal government's fiscal code. The warning was issued after U.S. corporation Haliburton was identified as a major tax evader in that nation.