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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (943)	2/5/2004 10:27:15 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Very interesting analysis and observation. Merits further looking into.

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (943)	2/5/2004 10:40:05 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Statement from John Kerry on CIA Director George Tenet’s Speech at Georgetown University johnkerry.com February 05, 2004 For Immediate Release “Today, the CIA Director, George Tenet, admitted that the intelligence agencies never told the White House that Iraq posed an imminent threat. But that’s not what the Bush White House told the American people. They said Iraq posed a ‘mortal threat,’ an ‘urgent threat,’ an ‘immediate threat,’ a ‘serious threat,’ and, yes, an ‘imminent threat’ to the people of the United States. “Today, we found out that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and the rest of the Administration weren’t passing on sound facts on Iraq to the American people - they were playing politics with our national security. “Americans should be able to trust that what the President tells them is true - especially when it comes to the life and death decisions of war and peace. “We need to restore America’s credibility around the world and the trust of the American people in their government at home. That’s not going to happen with a sham commission hand-picked by George Bush to look into how these faulty facts on Iraq made it to the American people. It’s not going to happen while the Bush White House continues its stalling and stonewalling. What we need is for this President to take responsibility - to face the truth - and to finally tell the truth to the American people. And we need that now.”

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (943)	2/6/2004 12:28:09 AM
From: laura_bush	Respond to of 81568

Great links re deficit, CalculatedRisk. Thanks for posting/ eom

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (943)	2/6/2004 2:17:24 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 81568

I cite Table 1.1 here. w3.access.gpo.gov Adding up "Surplus or Deficit(-)" from 2001 to 2005 (Bush's first term), a cumulative deficit of $850B is obtained- -well short of the $1.5T claimed by AS. Let me point out something else. In 1943 the gov't ran a deficit that was -227% of GDP. In 1976 it ran a deficit that was -25% of GDP. In 1983 it ran a deficit of -35% of GDP. In 2002 it ran a deficit of -1.5% of GDP. In 2003 it looks like -3% of GDP. If current projections prove true (always a risky proposition), that will be the high point. For a nation that is basically in a state of war, these numbers are commendable. GDP figures are from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. research.stlouisfed.org