AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Uncle Sam a fiscal wreck.(Between The Lines)
ITEM: The Philadelphia Inquirer for February 1 reported that President Bush had met with GOP strategists, promising "fiscal restraint" and seeking "support for his election-year agenda." Said the President: "At home, we've got to make sure that the economy keeps growing. One clear signal we need to send to the American people and the markets is: 'We're going to be wise when it comes to the expenditure of the people's money.'"
BETWEEN THE LINES." This can't even pass the straight-face test. After all, it was just a year ago that Mr. Bush predicted there would be a budget deficit of $307.4 billion for fiscal 2004. A deficit of that size would now be considered relatively good news. Amazingly, the estimated budget deficit for fiscal 2004 is now higher by more than $200 billion. Here are a few other facts about fiscal irresponsibility:
* Since 2000, federal ...
- Remarks By President Bush at National World War II Memorial Dedication.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 30, 2004 700+ words
...transcript of remarks by President Bush at the National World War II Memorial Dedication...May 29: National World War II Memorial Washington...President Clinton, President Bush, Senator Dole and...proudly accept the World War II Memorial on behalf...
- World War II Legacy Conference to be key noted by Former President Bush Nov....
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 7, 2001 700+ words
...M University: World War II Legacy Conference...noted by Former President Bush Nov. 12-13...extensively about World War II, will speak at 11:30 a.m. and President Bush will speak at 5...Nov. 12). President Bush was a U.S. Navy aviator during World ...
- For Latvia, Russian 'occupation' still rankles; President Bush visits Friday to...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 6, 2005 700+ words
...poster children for economic progress and democracy, and President Bush is expected to tout that when he arrives here Friday on a...commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II, which Mr. Bush will mark in official ceremonies in...
- War criminals face prosecution in U.S.: President Bush wants war criminals,...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Maier, Timothy W. April 29, 2003 700+ words
President George W. Bush has vowed that his administration will prosecute war criminals. His father made similar promises during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, but not a single Iraqi was prosecuted. The reason? The Iraqis responsible for the 1991 war crimes never came under coalition control, so
- Security shuffle: Is nation safer? President Bush establishes a cabinet-level...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 7, 2002 700+ words
...self-examination and reorganization since the existing national-security bureaucracy was created after World War II. President Bush's establishment today of a new cabinet-level homeland security agency is only the latest in a string of...
- Bush states Baltics were wronged by Soviets after World War II.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 8, 2005 700+ words
...Byline: Mark Silva May 8--While celebrating democracy that has taken hold throughout much of Europe since World War II, President Bush came here Saturday to admonish Soviet oppressors who occupied the Baltic states decades after the war ended...
- A Vision, and Little Else; President Bush mocked press reports, but if he...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Zakaria, Fareed September 13, 2004 700+ words
...the occupation, is now under 5 percent. President Bush mocked press reports detailing the problems...faith will conquer reality. It won't." President Bush is right to note that after World War II, because "generations of Americans...
- Rumors of World War III.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 25, 2006 700+ words
...columnist's declaration that, "World War III has begun." Among the...Seattle Times that America is in World War III and that President Bush ought to say so. Gingrich...But look around. Rumors of World War III are exaggerated. Granted...