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

To: Bill who wrote (455622)	9/9/2003 5:52:35 PM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Give it up while you can retain a shred of dignity, Bill... LOL. Lizzie and TP have you by the balls. lb

To: Bill who wrote (455622)	9/10/2003 8:50:48 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The deficit will increase because of spending, You are correct that more spending is inevitable: <font color=purple>The White House acknowledged Monday that it substantially underestimated the cost of rebuilding Iraq and that<font color=red> even the additional $87 billion it was seeking from a wary Congress would fall far short of what is needed for postwar reconstruction.<font color=purple> Administration officials said President Bush's emergency spending request — which would push the U.S. budget deficit above the half-trillion-dollar mark for the first time — still left a reconstruction <font color=red>funding gap of as much as $55 billion.<font color=black> Any hope to reduce the deficit will have to come from the revenue side of the equation, these spending numbers dwarf any potential discresionary spending cuts. TP latimes.com