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

To: RON BL who wrote (534592)	2/3/2004 1:28:56 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 769670

well interesting, your assumption that the dept of education eats up substantial parts of the budget contradicts Paul Krugman's latest column. You do know how to read, right? I have my doubts, because you don't appear to have looked at the federal budget. nytimes.com In other words, the role of nonsecurity spending in the plunge into deficit is trivial, compared with tax cuts and security spending. (Credit where credit is due: the administration's budget numbers show the same thing.) And even severe austerity on nonsecurity spending won't make a significant dent in the deficit.

To: RON BL who wrote (534592)	2/3/2004 2:44:43 AM
From: Gus	Respond to of 769670

Yawwnnnnnn! You're merely parroting the conservative idealogues who are always too eager to sacrifice the genuine prospects of a structural majority for the sake of ideological purity and/or ego. The alternative just ain't worth a damn, ya' know. There's also the moral imperative to wage this war against terrorism just as decisively as we fought the war against Communism during the 80s. It took only 9 years from Jimmy Carter's trifecta from hell (Saddam, Ayatollah, Afghanistan) in 1980 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Of course, it took only 8 years for Bill Clinton to get his own trifecta from hell (Saddam, Osama Bin Laden/Al Qaeda, North Korea), but Clinton was always the smarter one.<g>