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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

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.

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> 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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