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

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (514066)	12/21/2003 4:44:53 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (514066)	12/21/2003 6:25:32 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bushies pretend people haven't been hurt by Bush policies. All that spending and a net loss of millions of jobs. Bush would have done much better to simply hire millions of people directly. It would have been a lot cheaper for the nation.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (514066)	12/21/2003 6:43:36 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769667

FACT IS FACT.....Republicans remain the ultimate in HYPOCRACY....especially IN THE NAME OF GOD.....and COUNTRY....as long as it's wrapped up in OUR flag This guy is a mini TED STEVENS...ULTRACROOK Corruption claim governor says he was called by God By David Rennie (Filed: 19/12/2003) The governor of the strait-laced New England state of Connecticut has rejected calls for his resignation over corruption allegations, saying he is in direct contact with God. In a performance worthy of a fallen "televangelist" John Rowland, who has admitted accepting favours and gifts from powerful businessmen, defended his position by saying the Almighty had called to him "loud and clear" in his "adversity". Mr Rowland, a Republican who faces a federal inquiry into the awarding of lucrative state contracts, spoke flanked by local soldiers recently returned from Iraq. He hailed the capture of Saddam Hussein, conceding that the operation did not involve any troops from his state, but adding: "It could have been any one of our Connecticut servicemen or women." He declared that such heroism "puts everything in perspective real quick". At the same public appearance, before a sympathetic audience of businessmen and lobbyists, the governor's wife delivered her own version of the poem The Night Before Christmas, in which she predicted that Father Christmas would deliver coal, rather than presents, to a local newspaper which unmasked her husband as lying about who paid for expensive repairs to their lakeside cottage. In the poem, which drew gasps from the audience, Mrs Rowland compared staff at the Hartford Courant newspaper to "grinches who have stolen our tree". Her parody went on to describe a Christmas wish "for the man next to me: a new year that is peaceful and refreshingly free of rumours and hearsay that do nothing but smother the positive works we should do for each other". Connecticut, a haughty sort of place, is not accustomed to finding itself in the same lists as Louisiana or New Jersey, where corruption is more or less taken for granted among state politicians. Mr Rowland, a three-term governor, has vowed to remain in office despite being caught lying this month when he insisted that he paid for work at his cottage, including the installation of a hot tub. Several of his aides also face inquiries, including a deputy chief of staff who pleaded guilty to steering state contracts to firms in exchange for cash and gold, some of which he buried in his backyard.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (514066)	12/22/2003 7:38:15 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 769667

Lizzie. You said...." facts is facts, job loss under Bush.".... Compared to Other Nations, U.S. Manufacturing Job Losses Modest: Most Industrial Nations Have Witnessed Greater Job Losses December 8, 2003 taxfoundation.org By John Tatom Ph.D., Senior Visiting Fellow* Since July 2000, the U.S. economy has seen manufacturing employment fall from 17.3 million to 14.5 million as of October of this year – a loss of 2.8 million jobs. Many observers fear that these jobs have been "shipped overseas" and call for various policies to support the U.S. manufacturing base. Despite news accounts of U.S. firms "outsourcing" jobs overseas, the data shows that the decline in US manufacturing employment generally has not been accompanied by faster employment growth abroad. Indeed, it appears that the manufacturing sector – both here and abroad – is undergoing the same phenomenon: rapid growth in productivity is delivering rapid growth in output with fewer people employed in manufacturing. In the U.S., manufacturing employment peaked in June 1979. Since then, manufacturing jobs have declined by 21.8 percent. While considerable, this is actually smaller than the drop in manufacturing jobs that has occurred in most other countries since their peak levels. The table below shows the year in which manufacturing employment peaked in 16 other industrialized countries and the size of the employment declines since that peak. The data shows that 12 of these countries, including France, Germany and Japan, have witnessed larger declines in their manufacturing industries. Even South Korea and Taiwan have seen manufacturing jobs decline from their peaks in the late-1980s. Two OECD countries, Canada and Ireland (not shown below), have enjoyed small manufacturing job gains recently. Canadian manufacturing employment was just 5 percent higher in 2002 than at an earlier peak level. In Ireland, employment was only 4.5 percent higher in 2002 than it had been in 1980, an earlier peak that was not exceeded until 1997. Country Previous Peak Year Decline in Employement from Peak Year to 2002 Taiwan 1989 -11.7% Denmark 1982 -29.8% S. Korea 1988 -14.4% France 1974 -32.3% Australia * 1973 -18.9% Mexico * 1981 -32.8% Italy 1980 -20.1% Sweden 1970 -32.9% US 1979 -21.8% Netherlands 1965 -34.0% Norway 1974 -24.8% Belgium 1970 -42.8% Japan 1992 -25.5% UK 1966 -54.6% Germany ** 1965 -27.0% Czech Rep. * 1986 -55.8% Greece * 1982 -28.5% ** West Germany data end in 1998 Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics and OECD (*)