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

To: TideGlider who wrote (522077)	1/10/2004 11:54:31 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

And the Democratic party of today is left with nothing but fists full of soggy bread...

To: TideGlider who wrote (522077)	1/10/2004 11:55:05 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 769670

Unfortunately, people have forgotten these wise words and instead promote their own agendas. A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Thomas Jefferson

To: TideGlider who wrote (522077)	1/10/2004 12:06:40 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Good article: Excerpt follows: By Robert J. Samuelson Newsweek Jan. 12 issue - Just for the record, the Congressional Budget Office recently issued a report telling us what everyone already knows: the federal budget is drifting into a future of unprecedented tax in-creases, huge deficits or both. This is no secret because the great driving force of change is the impending retirement of 77 million baby boomers and their heavy claims on federal retirement programs. But in Washington, the CBO's irrefutable conclusion won't produce any noticeable reaction because there's already a firmly established bipartisan policy concerning the future: forget about it. To leaders of both parties, offending today's voters with unpopular solutions to future problems makes no sense. Indeed, Republicans and Democrats will gladly worsen tomorrow's problems to win more of today's votes. President George W. Bush did precisely that in successfully advocating a new Medicare drug benefit, and although Democrats criticized him, their complaint was that the new benefit isn't generous—a.k.a., expensive—enough...