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...facts warrant. His "200 programs" is based on a Bush-campaign laundry list of Gore ideas, including two new websites (each counts as a program). His "20,000 bureaucrats" is a partisan guess in an unreleased report by the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee. His biggest-spender-since-L.B.J. charge is more substantive. It is based on analysis by Carol Cox Wait of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan watchdog group. Wait compared the inflation-adjusted costs of various programs over the past 35 years to arrive at her conclusions. She concluded what...
...Bush becomes president, I just hope he doesn't start spending our tax dollars the same way he's been going through his campaign money. Tax money is the people's money. As a conservative Republican, Bush should show that he is a responsible spender. MARC PERKEL Springfield...
...rarity in parched Arizona, they had an omen of victory. Early Tuesday afternoon, McCain gathered with his staff in the sprawling kitchen of his Phoenix home, where he had just had a haircut. His four younger children ran in and out of the room. "Jack's a pork-barrel spender," joked 11-year-old Jimmy about his 13-year-old brother, using one of his father's favorite insults. Aides chowed on grilled cheese sandwiches while McCain cycled through a round of radio interviews on the phone. Political strategist Murphy got a call from a network-television source and while...
...down the debt. It isn?t surprising that the Fed Chairman, whose speeches are the economic equivalent of Rorshach tests, left both sides with enough soundbites to claim his support. On his list of preferences, the tax cut ranks second. The Clinton plan certainly bears some characteristics of a spender?s plan ?- that?s certainly what the Republicans say. But the voters, so far, seem to see it the other...
...search for a husband by daddy issues; Rex, a Wall Street jock recovering from an addiction to both coke and a blond-bombshell stripper; Dylan, a rock-'n'-roll sideman and jingle writer in the throes of alcoholism; Jack, a 59-year-old Broadway producer and former big spender suspended from producing for seven years, a plea bargain for embezzling from his shows; Peter, a wimpy accountant; and Lina, a mental-health administrator, poverty-stricken by a two-year divorce fight with her millionaire husband. All the names, including the doctor's, are pseudonyms...