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

To: HPilot who wrote (113482)	1/24/2008 8:18:27 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 173976

Since 2001, "Gasoline prices have doubled, and the home foreclosure rate has increased by 55 percent. The proportion of Americans without health insurance, which was declining at decade’s end, has grown by 2 percentage points. Both the unemployment and poverty rates are a percentage point higher. War spending has helped convert a $236 billion federal budget surplus into a $163 billion deficit (reduced from $413 billion in 2004). " msnbc.msn.com