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lchic
- 10:44pm Jul 29, 2002 EST (#3343
of 3355)
Americans can feel and know pain - when it happens to
certain Americans in 'homeland' zones: 9/11, trapped in mine
shaft, and reading 'the bottom line figure'
(Shares/Pensions/Savings).
Elsewhere pain - has 'Not the Nine O'clock News'* status.
This was a *1979 clasic BBC comedy http://britcom.hispeed.com/notnews/sounds.html
almarst2002
- 11:35pm Jul 29, 2002 EST (#3344
of 3355)
George W. Bush is shattering records for the worst first
18 months in office for a U.S. president as measured by the
benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500. In his first
year-and-a-half in the White House, Bush presided over a 36.9
percent decline, almost twice the percentage drop of Herbert
Hoover, the president who led the nation into the Depression.
- http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/072202a.html
lchic
- 11:38pm Jul 29, 2002 EST (#3345
of 3355)
Bet the Bush personal bank balance is riding higher than
Hoover's ever did - relatively speaking.
[ The US market was said to be $7Trillion
overvalued in the early Nineties ]
lchic
- 11:44pm Jul 29, 2002 EST (#3346
of 3355)
Russian market is said to give the best returns - (some
risks re mafia). A growth economy!
Legistlation is being put into place to assist the
development of small business.
Currently 'big business' has been wiping out the small
competition.
Developing a environment in which people can operate
'fairly' is a RU legislative emphasis. There ought to be a
place for all as the economy grows.
~~~~
The Russians who moved over to Aussie have had golden
achievements this week at the Commonwealth Games in Diving and
HighJump.
lchic
- 06:54am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#3347
of 3355)
Krugman "" The latest antics of the White House Office
of Management and Budget have even the most hardened cynics
shaking their heads. It's not just that projections for fiscal
2002 have gone from a $150 billion surplus to a $165 billion
deficit in the space of a few months; it's not just that the
O.M.B. projects a much smaller deficit next year, when
everyone else — including the Republican staff of the Senate
Budget Committee — says the deficit will increase. It's also
the fact that O.M.B officials simply lie about what their own
report says.
"The recession erased two-thirds of the projected 10-year
surplus. . . . The tax cut, which economists credit for
helping the economy recover, generated less than 15% of the
change." So reads the agency's press release. Yet as the
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities points out, the actual
report attributes 40 percent of the budget deterioration to
tax cuts, only 10 percent to recession. Maybe dishonesty in
the defense of tax cuts is no vice.
State governments turned into banana republics in part
because voters didn't realize that a charming, personable
chief executive can also be an irresponsible opportunist,
seeking political advantage through policies that ensure a
fiscal crisis on someone else's watch. Now the same governing
style has moved to Washington. And this time there's no safety
net. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/opinion/30KRUG.html
lchic
- 08:25am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#3348
of 3355)
"Just open a map," said a member of the Kuwaiti royal
family in close consultation with Washington. "Afghanistan is
in turmoil, the Middle East is in flames, and you want to open
a third front in the region?" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/30/international/30COST.html
rshow55
- 08:38am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#3349
of 3355)
I've had to postpone a trip East, to my great
disappointment, and the disappointment of my parents, because
of pressures from Cooper-Mazza-Dirac-Johnson - and some
opportunites, as well.
There is a key problem, and this board has adressed it
again and again (almost always in ways where details of my
identity don't matter).
Question:
. Do the authorities, or people with
status, have an unlimited right to lie, distort, and
distract in the United States of America?
In a lot of cases, that seems to be the status quo. Getting
that fixed is, in part a technical matter, and there
has been a lot of effort on this thread to address that. Over
time, almarst has been very helpful.
There are a lot of relevant things, some of the most
interesting involving almarst , to be found by
searching "Krugman" on this thread.
We'd have a much better world if the facts Krugman sets out
- in a place in the NYT where some checking is likely to have
occurred -- were checked to closure.
There are times when there ought to be compelling
obligations to get facts straight.
Where politicians ought to expect this of other
politicians, and voters should expect this of the people they
judge.
That would be a great but needed change from that "culture
of lying" that evolved in the 20th century - especially after
WWII - which has degraded so much that we value in America.
lchic
- 08:50am Jul 30, 2002 EST (#3350
of 3355)
"" Bush already has approved covert action against Saddam
and directed the CIA to increase support to Iraqi opposition
groups. Six Iraqi opposition leaders are visiting Washington
for talks next month.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20262-2002Jul30.html
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