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The Party of NO: GOP Budget Has No Numbers And No Plan

Posted by nytexan

For weeks the GOP has complained about every stimulus plan, economic plan and Obama’s budget. Every time you turn on the news or read an article the GOP “no” choir is in your face. Let’s not forget that from 2000 through 2006, Republican ran both Houses of Congress under the Bush Administration and ran up [...]

Not Recession, Just A Slowdown, Oil Still Pricey … No Connection, Mr. Bush?

Posted by bosskitty

Bush: economy not in recession, in slowdown
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Tuesday said the U.S. economy was not in a recession but was experiencing a slowdown.
“We’re not in a recession, we’re in a slowdown,” Bush said at a news conference at the end of a two-day summit [...]

Bush Exit Strategy, Spend $3.1 Trillion, Let Rebates Boost China

Posted by bosskitty

WASHINGTON — President Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget on Monday that supports sizable increases in military spending to fight the war on terrorism and protects his signature tax cuts.
The spending proposal, which shows the government spending $3 trillion in a 12-month period for the first time in history, squeezes most of [...]

Cheney’s Oil Based Economics Takes No Prisoners

Posted by bosskitty

Cheney: No bailouts, no tax hikes…more oil

The vice president wields considerable power on economic policy. In a Fortune exclusive, the free-market fan weighs in on the credit crisis and his biggest fear. more
• Cheney’s brain trust
• Dick Cheney does the economy
Vice President Dick Cheney wields considerable power on economic policy. In a Fortune exclusive, the [...]

Afghanistan, Iraq War Costs Grossly Underestimated

Posted by bosskitty

NO END TO WAR BUDGET WOES
WASHINGTON – To paraphrase an old US Army song (The Caissons Go Rolling Along), the costs of the overall US global “war on terror”, including, but not limited to the Iraq war, just keep rolling along and piling up. The title “The Growing Budgetary Costs of the Iraq War” of [...]

Japanese Play Down Historical Indiscretions, Just Like We Do

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HR976, SCHIP Faces Bush Push For Bullets Not Children

Posted by bosskitty

HR976 – Lloyd Doggett, (D) 25th District Texas, hits Bush in the nose again. Bush screwed Texas Children SCHIP and is doing the same for the nation’s children. Lloyd cites the fact that Texas ranks 37th in 2006 and worse this year.
Bush’s daughters are alive and well, NOT because [...]

$750 Million A Day Spent On Bush Armageddon Envy

Posted by bosskitty

The Quakers have a wonderful website, AFSC.ORG , that keeps tally of the dollars being flushed down the war toilet. They have posted alternative directions this enormous amount of money could be better spent. This country contains well over 300 Million souls. The quality of life is rapidly being thrown in two [...]

GOP let the budget get out of control, says Greenspan

Posted by bosskitty

Greenspan says GOP “deserved to lose”
By William Neikirk
Alan Greenspan’s new memoir is tough on Republicans and President Bush and it could be turned into a campaign manifesto for Democrats in certain respects.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the former Federal Reserve chairman writes that the GOP deserved to lose power in Congress last fall because [...]

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