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To: RealMuLan who wrote (53922)	10/3/2004 8:05:21 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

UK minister urges women to have babies! The women are not very cooperative. Remaind them of the Third Reich and of Singapore. I can see around me in this Kaduna (Nigeria) Internet Cafe a lot of prospects that will produce the babies for the UK and for the rest of Europe. They've got to import the people. Mass migration is the solution. Is going to happen.

To: RealMuLan who wrote (53922)	10/3/2004 8:38:13 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Now we enter the very interesting stage. No fear-inducing issues of "terror", homeland "security". Now is about what the peopleknowfrom everyday life and experience. Kerry, Bush move focus to economy, jobs, taxes By James Kuhnhenn and William Douglas Washington Bureau ORLANDO, Fla. - As the presidential campaign enters its final month, Sen. John Kerry and President Bush on Saturday offered starkly different views of the economy in a deliberate shift from Iraq. In an address that aides described as a major domestic policy speech, Kerry said that on Election Day, "the American Dream is on the ballot" and told middle class voters that the Bush administration is in "a constant state of denial, which neglects" their needs. President Bush used a bus tour through the battleground state of Ohio and his weekly radio address to lash out at Kerry's economic policies. In the radio address, Bush credited his tax cuts for helping revive the nation's sagging economy and called on Congress to make them permanent. He accused Kerry of being a consistent impediment to federal tax cuts. "When I proposed tax relief for working families in 2001 and 2003, Sen. Kerry and other Democratic leaders voted against it," Bush said. "In fact, Sen. Kerry has voted consistently against marriage penalty relief, against increasing the child tax credit and against expanding the 10-percent bracket." The shift to domestic issues puts both campaigns on track for the two remaining presidential debates. At Friday's debate in St. Louis, the candidates are expected to face a broader array of questions from voters who are either undecided or uncertain about their vote. During the day, Kerry painted a bleak picture of the U.S. economy and blamed the Bush administration for failing to sustain the surpluses and economic good times of the 1990s. Still, some of the policies he targeted, such as tax advantages for corporations with overseas operations, are not Bush's and have been in place for years. He outlined his proposals for increasing taxes for wealthy Americans to Clinton-era levels and for expanding health care, increasing spending on education and providing job incentives for corporations. Kerry said that new jobs are not paying as well as the jobs that have been lost during the economic downturn, an assertion that some economists dispute. He cited the more defensible statistic that inflation-adjusted income for the median household fell by $1,535 in Bush's first three years, though that number does not reflect economic improvements this year and does not include the impact of Bush's tax cuts. For his part, Bush chided his opponent for offering a spate of new programs that will cost taxpayers dearly. "Now Sen. Kerry and the Democrat leaders are proposing a lot of new federal spending, and the only way to pay all their promises is to raise taxes on working families," Bush said. Bush echoed that theme in campaign stops in Columbus, Mansfield and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. At all the stops, Bush extolled his vision of an "ownership society" in which more Americans will own their own homes, their own private Social Security-like retirement and health accounts, and run their own business with reduced government restrictions. Bush said a Kerry presidency could not achieve those ideals because Kerry would raise taxes and expand the role of the government in people's lives