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

To: JBTFD who wrote (472060)	10/6/2003 8:01:35 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

The States are in better fiscal shape by far than the federal government.

To: JBTFD who wrote (472060)	10/6/2003 8:59:52 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL show me the bias. Make something up... LOL Separated out that way, the state budget data tell a striking story. Though the total population of Bush and Gore states are almost identical, the states that voted Democratic account for fully 70% of today's state deficits; Republican states ring up only 30% of the total. And of 10 ten states with the largest per capita budget deficits (see nearby table), every single one voted Democratic in the last presidential election. (Alaska, which finances its government from oil revenues rather than taxes on its citizens, was excluded from my analysis.)