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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Just for fun
  • Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:58:42 -0400

Well I won't argue with you there. I am pretty disgusted with the Bush
administration and the Medicare bill myself. I think a lot of Republicans
on the hill felt duped as well when they released the $150 billion increase
to the price tag shortly after the bill was passed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of Michael Czeiszperger
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:55 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Just for fun
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Tony Spencer wrote:
>
> > "February orders were revised sharply upward, as well.
> Instead of the
> > previously reported 2.5 percent gain, the Commerce Department said
> > February orders were up 3.8 percent. Orders have risen in
> three of the
> > last four months."
>
> Unless January orders were also up on the same amount, then
> you haven't got a quarter of strong growth.
>
> After what happened with the Bush Administration and the
> Medicare bill, I'm wary of revised figures coming out the
> Commerce Department in an election year:
>
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4571136/
>
> "Rick Foster, the chief actuary for Medicare, says he was
> told he would be fired if he passed along the higher
> estimates to Congress. 'I'll fire him so fast his head will
> spin,' Thomas Scully, then head of Medicare, said last June,
> according to an aide who has now gone public."
>
> Let's hope the Commerce Department is more immune to the
> affects of political appointees.
>
> I like how a republican member of congress is now complaining
> about how he was offered bribes to support the medicare bill:
>
> "A retiring Republican from Michigan, Rep. Nick Smith, even
> charges that supporters of the bill offered him a bribe in
> the form of financial support for the political campaign of his son."
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> michael at czeiszperger dot org
> Chapel Hill, NC
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