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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (330)	2/3/2004 8:24:13 PM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 173976

Very true, but as a "soldier" he won't do it--he has already announced that he will not serve a second term. Namaste! Jim

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (330)	2/3/2004 8:24:56 PM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 173976

Bogus Budgeting washingtonpost.com Tuesday, February 3, 2004; Page A18 THE BUSH administration's 2005 budget is a masterpiece of disingenuous blame-shifting, dishonest budgeting and irresponsible governing. The administration mildly terms the $521 billion deficit forecast this year "a legitimate subject of concern," but asserts that it has the problem well in hand: The deficit, it assures the country, will be cut in half by 2009. This isn't credible -- and even if it were, it wouldn't be an adequate answer to a problem far more serious than this administration acknowledges. Having presided over record deficits, the administration now wants to claim credit if it manages to cut the bloated number in half. Imagine someone who's been piling on extra pounds at an alarming rate. Trimming his annual weight gain from 30 pounds this year to 15 pounds five years from now still leaves him fat -- and getting fatter. The goal shouldn't be to cut the deficit in half; it should be to remedy the gap between what the government is spending and what it is taking in. To keep running up these deficits is to stick future generations with a tab they won't be able to afford. The administration presents itself as blameless victim. "Today's budget deficits are the unavoidable product of the revenue erosion from the stock market collapse that began in early 2000, an economy recovering from recession, and a nation confronting serious national security threats," its budget states. "Had there not been one dime of tax relief under President Bush, we would have still run substantial budget deficits." Yes, but what this omits is the degree to which the administration's tax cuts -- many dimes' worth, as it happens -- contributed to the problem. Of this year's $521 billion deficit, the tax cuts account for $272 billion. In 2009, when the administration projects that it will have cut the deficit to $239 billion, the tax cuts (assuming the administration wins the extension it demanded again yesterday) will cost $183 billion -- in other words, the lion's share of the projected shortfall. But this low-ball estimate is a mirage. Like the 2005 budget, it doesn't take into account continuing costs in Iraq and Afghanistan. It fails to address the acknowledged problem of the alternative minimum tax, which was aimed at the wealthy but is sweeping in growing numbers of ordinary taxpayers. It doesn't fully fund the administration's long-term defense spending plans. A more accurate picture of the likely deficit in 2009 -- even assuming the administration manages to keep to its stated spending limits -- would put it more than $150 billion higher. And, of course, the surplus in government retirement accounts masks the true size of the shortfall: $501 billion in 2009, even under the administration's fuzzy math. As to the spending cuts, Mr. Bush proposes to squeeze significant savings out of a small slice of the budget -- the less than one-fifth that goes to discretionary spending not related to defense or homeland security. Is this credible? Consider this statement yesterday from House Appropriations Committee Chairman C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.): "No one should expect significant deficit reduction as a result of austere non-defense discretionary spending limits. The numbers simply do not add up." One illustration of the gulf between the administration and Congress comes in the amount set aside for highway funding. The administration's budget contemplates $256 billion over six years -- nearly $120 billion less than the measure now before the House. The biggest distortion is to present a snapshot of 2009 and stop there. Making the tax cuts permanent would cost $132 billion in the coming five years, but $936 billion through 2014. How Mr. Bush can adhere to this reckless course is the true "subject of concern." washingtonpost.com

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (330)	2/3/2004 8:27:10 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 173976

SPeaking of Janet Jackson's boob made me think of another boob. ..........below is a poem about him...........so much preoccupation with boobs coming from the White House. AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES On January 28, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft, announced that he spent $8000 of taxpayer's money for drapes to cover up the exposed breast of The Spirit of Justice, an 18ft aluminum statue of a woman that stands in the Hall of Justice. John, John, John, you've got your priorities all wrong. While men fly airplanes into skyscrapers, dive bomb the pentagon, while they stick explosives into their shoes, and then book a seat right next to us, while they hide knives in their luggage, steal kids on school buses, take little girls from their beds at night drive trucks into our state capital buildings, while our president calls dangerous men all over the world evildoers and devils, while we live in the threat of biological warfare nuclear destruction, annihilation, you are out buying yardage to save Americans from the appalling alarming, abominable aluminum alloy of evil, that terrible ten foot tin tittie. You might not be able to find Bin Laden But you sure as hell found the hooter in the hall of justice. It's not that we aren't grateful But while we were begging the women of Afghanistan To not cover up their faces You are begging your staff members to Just cover up that nipple To save the American people >From that monstrous metal mammary How can we ever thank you? So, in your office every morning in your secret prayer meeting. while an American woman is sexually assaulted every 6 seconds while anthrax floats around the post office and settles in the chest of senior citizens, you've got another chest on your mind. While American sons arrive home in body bags and heat seeking missiles fly around a foreign country looking for any warm body you think of another body. And you pray for the biggest bra in the world John because you see that breast on the spirit of justice in the spirit of your own inhibited sexuality. And when we women see our grandmothers, our mothers, our daughters, our granddaughters, our sisters, ourselves, when we women see that statue the spirit of justice we see the spirit of strength the spirit of survival. While every day we view innocent bodies dragged out of rubble and women and children laid out like thin limp dolls and baptized into death as collateral damage and the hollow eyed Afghani mother's milk has dried up underneath her burka in famine in shame and her children are dead at her breast. While you look at that breast John that jug on the spirit of justice and deal with your thoughts of lust and sex and nakedness we see it as a testimony motherhood And you see it as a tit. It's not the money it cost. It's the message you send. We've got the right to live in freedom. We got the right to cheat Americans out of millions of dollars and then just not want to tell congress about it. We've got the right to drop bombs night and day on a small country that has no army, no navy, no military at all, because we've got the right to bear arms but we just better not even think about not the right to bare breasts. So now John you can be photographed while you stand there and talk about guns and bombs and poisons without the breast appearing over your right shoulder without that bodacious bosom bothering you and we just wanted to tell you in the spirit of justice in the spirit of truth John there is still one very big boob left standing there in that picture. Claire Braz-Valentine