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...PBHA's finances are always teetering on the brink," Hampton says. "Donors don't want a surplus: they could take some of their money and give it to someone else. Non-profits very rarely have large cash reserves...
HEALTH CARE Gore will use $253 billion of the budget surplus between now and 2010 for prescription-drug coverage for the elderly under Medicare. Bush devotes $110 billion to overhaul Medicare and relies on the as yet undemonstrated goodwill of insurance companies to provide a drug benefit. Whenever Gore brings up this subject or Social Security or any threat to the elderly, he's accused of scare tactics. I should hope...
...down-the middle Congress; the next president will find it exceedingly difficult to govern, and in the markets' estimation that's okeydoke. Which is why a President-elect Gore, being the more combative candidate, would likely get his own round of market plaudits - gridlock means guaranteed use of the surplus for debt repayment, and nothing about Washington fills the markets' sails like a really good Plan B - a priority additionally endorsed by the Almighty Greenspan...
...through all that, the American people have continued on with their work and their families and their lives, and fueled an economic expansion that today, in the year 2000, has left the federal government in Washington with a budget surplus of 4 trillion dollars...
...also, a chance to say no. It's your money. You take it back. I want to give a quarter of the surplus back to you, so that nobody pays more than a third of their salary in income taxes, so that nobody feels that moving up in the world, setting aside a little money, will only make them a bigger target for the IRS. That's not right. That's not what America was built on. That's not how I want this country...