Deficit in '03 - $450 Bill

Post #109,734 by deSitter 7/15/03 10:51:52 AM Reply	Deficit in '03 - $450 Bill That's BILLION, as in REAL MONEY. Nearing half a trillion only a few years gone from a SURPLUS. Our long nightmare of prosperity is finally over! [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56224-2003Jul14.html?nav=hptop_tb\|http://www.washingto...html?nav=hptop_tb] Bush - toasted in '02, toast in '04. (NB - Wash Post ID popup - make yourself a 100 year old woman from Beverly Hills - zip 90210). -drl
Post #109,743 by Simon_Jester 7/15/03 11:40:04 AM Reply	Chuckle...but we're not in a recession or anything... after all, the economy is great... But Republicans and many independent economists say the sluggish economy and rising jobless rate remain the largest factors in the worsening fiscal picture. Tax revenue has fallen for three straight years, a streak not seen since the Depression. Through June, tax collection is below the amount of taxes collected in the same period in 1999, according to the Congressional Budget Office. [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56224-2003Jul14.html?nav=hptop_tb\| Washington Post ]
Post #109,766 by lincoln 7/15/03 1:10:33 PM Reply	I like these comments That is 50 percent higher than the Bush administration forecast five months ago. The deficit projection is nearly $55 billion more than economists anticipated just last week, and it underscores the continuing deterioration of the government's fortunes since 2000, when the Treasury posted a $236 billion surplus. That represents a fiscal reversal exceeding $680 billion. lincoln "Four score and seven years ago, I had a better sig" [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #109,776 by jb4 7/15/03 1:52:54 PM Reply	"The Long Nightmare of Prosperity" First, /me likes! Second, the only trouble witht he Prosperity that made it such a Nightmare was that it was egalitarian...everybody could participate. Properity is only Properity if it is exclusive; if too many of the vast unwashed get to participate, then what's the point? Too many of them damfool Yuppies takin' over my country club, goddammit! jb4 "We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's." Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems
Post #109,833 by kmself 7/15/03 7:32:56 PM Reply	Re: "The Long Nightmare of Prosperity" [link\|http://www.theonion.com/onion3701/bush_nightmare.html\|You read it here first]. --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #109,836 by Ashton 7/15/03 8:08:49 PM Reply	{glorp}
Post #109,842 by deSitter 7/15/03 8:31:01 PM Reply	yes :) -drl

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