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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (631261)	9/23/2004 12:25:02 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 769670

His "low" poll numbers could not have anything to do with the full assault on him by his detractors at the big 5 liberal tv outlets. The millions spent by 527 groups to bash him could not have influenced any of that. Your article said, "Let us imagine you had a corporation with annual gross revenues of about $2 trillion. And let's say that in 2000, it had profits of $150 billion. So you bring in a new CEO, and within four years, the profit falls to zero and then the company goes into the red to the tune of over $400 billion per year. " The Roth IRA has been widely credited with supplying those surpluses. It caused people to accelerate their tax payments into the current year or to pay the taxes on a conversion over 4 years. Is it possible for a Democrat supporter to report all of the facts? Journalism used to mean report both sides and allow the public to decide. Editorials were limited to the editorial page. Now authors like Juan Cole spin the facts to suit their argument.