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Rubin attacked Bush’s economic policy, saying despite the present upswing, long term tax cuts would send the deficit soaring...
...Bush Administration will be measured by those words," he told a crowd in Portsmouth, N.H. "But whose missions have been accomplished?" He proceeded to list the familiar miscreants who have been rewarded--the lobbyists who wrote the energy bill, the drug companies, the wealthy recipients of the Bush tax cuts. "But what about those other missions that need to be accomplished? What about jobs, health care...our relations with the rest of the world? In those cases, it's been Mission abandoned. Mission not attempted. Mission ignored...
Prosecutors allege that Parmalat created an elaborate house of milk cartons, using opaque subsidiaries (including one called Buconero, which means "black hole") in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg to hide the declining state of its finances. Tanzi has reportedly admitted shifting some $630 million from the company to other businesses but insists some underlings devised the accounting fraud. Former chief financial officer Fausto Tonna has given prosecutors crucial details about the firm's labyrinthine bookkeeping...
Part of Esselte's strategy involves taking full advantage of the flexibility that comes with being geographically close to customers. Because so many of the company's products are seasonal (sales spike during back-to-school and tax times), Nicolin explains, "it's very difficult to be based in China. It means big commitments. You cannot respond to fluctuations." And Esselte has not ignored the need to innovate--even in the market for what Nicolin jokingly calls "bent cardboard." Esselte is aggressively seeking patents on new products, and it has done five times as much market research this year...
...Does the Bush administration have any right to propose an endeavour like this when they already have the nation in a near financial crisis? The deficit is at a record high, and between the cost of the Iraq war and the Republican committment to tax cuts there is now sign of improvement. Going to the Moon or Mars would be extremely costly, something that Americans would be more likely to support if we all had jobs! Jon Butler Cheshire, Mass...