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Where would the Bush Administration be without terrorism? Like the Cold War before it, the "war on terror" is a conveniently sweeping rationale for all manner of irrational governance, such as the outrageous $2.77 trillion budget the President proposed to Congress on Monday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11865.htm



Programs Bush Wants to Cut or Kill

A list of the 141 programs that President Bush proposed to eliminate or cut in his 2007 budget
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11866.htm



Bush's Budget Cuts Elderly Nutrition Plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5608875,00.html



Man Dies After Insurance Co. Refuses To Cover Treatment

Even as he was dying, for more than a week, his insurance company denied him oral morphine, which had been prescribed to reduce his pain.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/3257367


From Information Clearing House



The New Robber Barons

The U.S. Department of Labor claims we have an unemployment rate of 4.9% [1]. According to "the Economist, however, the true unemployment rate in the U.S. is over 8%, or 12.6 million Americans [2]. The difference is due to the fact that the U.S. Government doesn,t count people as unemployed after six months without a job [3].

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11861.htm