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BUSH In response to criticism of the mushrooming budget deficit, Bush's chief economic adviser, Gregory Mankiw, acknowledges that the tax cuts, along with spending on homeland security, have dug a hole. "The deficit is unwelcome but understandable," he says. Mankiw says that further tax breaks will be offset by cuts in spending. He vows that this fiscal discipline and economic growth will halve the deficit in five years...
...BOTTOM LINE Neither candidate delves into specifics of how he will trim the deficit, and both propose expensive new programs, so economists are wary of their pledges to rein in spending. When the spending caps exclude Social Security, Medicare, education, defense and homeland security, McKelvey asks, what's left...
Daschle concluded that the White House, even after 9/11, had never stopped running every decision through a political filter. Bush's team was able to take the issue of creating the Department of Homeland Security, which the President initially opposed, and ultimately use it against Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections by suggesting the party cared more about protecting its labor supporters than protecting the country. "This is an ideological Administration that's different from Reagan and Bush One, which were very conservative but principled," Kennedy argues. "They wanted to win, but this Administration wants to destroy the opposition...
...wash. Against a backdrop of great events, even a mediocrity can seem great for a while. After Sept. 11, there was certainly a great flurry of activity. War on terrorism was declared. An actual war was started in Iraq and still goes on. A Department of Homeland Security was founded. Various American freedoms have been suspended. More than $100 billion has been spent. At the rate things are going, the toll of American lives lost responding to 9/11 may exceed the toll of 9/11 itself. The toll of innocent foreigners is higher already...
REVOKED. The work visa of TARIQ RAMADAN, a Muslim scholar scheduled to teach at Notre Dame this fall; by the Department of Homeland Security, which called him a public safety risk. The university and Ramadan, 42, deny the allegation...