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

To: American Spirit who wrote (512046)	12/17/2003 9:44:46 PM
From: Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Just keep your head in the ground: Everything here is factual: In April 1996 Vice president Al Gore attended a fund raiser at a Buddhist temple in California. The fund raiser was organized by John Huang and run by Charlie Trie. The fundraiser appears to have broken campaign finance laws, including the fact that it is improper to hold a political fundraiser at an institution recognized by the IRS as a religious organization. Also, a statement from a participant at the Gore fundraiser has claimed thousands of dollars in small bills were handed out in return for personal checks to the DNC. When first confronted with the evidence of violation of Federal campaign finance laws, Al Gore said he thought the illegal fundraiser was a "community outreach" event. Gore had stuck with this story through October, even as evidence emerged that everyone else at the event, including DNC chairman Don Fowler, knew that it was a fundraiser. Gore's office was finally confronted with documents released by the DNC that show Gore's office knew well in advance that the purpose of the illegal event was to ``extend appreciation for participant support and inspire political and fund-raising efforts.'' These words were in a memo sent by the DNC to Gore's office three days before the fundraiser. Confronted with evidence that Gore lied about his knowledge, Gore's spokesman acknowledged to the AP that Gore "knew it was a finance-related event...in retrospect if he [Gore] had the opportunity now to not say `community outreach' and to use a different term of art like political outreach or something like that, which could not be juxtaposed to fund-raising, he probably would have done it." Huh? A different term of art like political outreach? Gore's spokesman essentially said that Gore would have a used a better lie rather than one he originally used to excuse his participation in the illegal fundraiser. Why did Gore wait nearly three months to correct his first lie about his knowledge of the illegal fundraiser? Would the Vice President of the United States ever have "corrected" himself if he hadn't been confronted with documents proving his lie? The illegal fundraiser in the Buddhist temple had been set up by John Huang, the point man for the Clinton/Gore campaign funny foreign money laundering operation. One woman who attended the fundraiser said she gave a $5,000 check after she was handed $5,000 in cash by an unnamed Democratic activist. Other attendees gave money amounts that seemed high considering their meager income as Buddhist monks and nuns. Besides being an illegal use of church property, the temple fundraiser, which raised $140,000, seemed also to be an illegal money laundering operation for the Clinton/Gore campaign. Janet Reno, despite this and other evidence of high-level wrongdoing, has yet to appoint an independent counsel.

To: American Spirit who wrote (512046)	12/17/2003 10:13:11 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769667

Once again: Increase in the National Debt from Jan 31, 1993 - Nov, 31, 1995 (34 months, $4.167T beginning $4.989T end). GDP 1995 $7.075T. Increase of National debt during the first 34 months of the Clinton Administration as a percent of GDP (1995) = 11.6% Increase in the National Debt from Jan 31, 2001 - Nov, 31, 2003 (34 months, $5.716T beginning $6.925 end). GDP 2003 $11.063T. Increase of National debt during the first 34 months of the Bush (43) Administration as a percent of GDP (2003est.) = 10.93% bea.doc.gov. Unemployment: November 1995: Civilian workforce was 132.442 million, 125.010 million employed, 7.432 million unemployed. Unemployment rate = 5.6% ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/History/empsit.120895.news November 2003: Civilian worforce was 142.277 million, 138.603 million employed, 8.674 million unemployed. Unemployment rate =5.9% bls.gov re:"It's the economy, stupid. Bush's recovery is all debt financed and no jobs. Global economy and cooperation was clicking on all cylinders under Clinton. Bush is trying hard to do some damage control now before the election, but his first three years were miserable"