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586 [lbo-talk] neocon economists -- rank: 1000

So we've covered the neocon politicos and philosophers, who are the economists in tow? marta --

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587 [lbo-talk] Huffington at AEI -- rank: 1000

Arianna Huffington's roots? See the American Enterprise Institute web site. Huffington now gets invited to speak at left forums all over the nation. Huffington has some of left enraptured by her boldness but I am still sceptical of her intentions. Hard to say but she may be one of those right wingers planted on the left. See: http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.16239,filter./news_detail.asp The Election of 1996 and our comming choice between freedom and entitlements By Harvey Mansfield, Arianna Huf ...

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588 [lbo-talk] Re: to the president... -- rank: 1000

>At 04:10 PM 04/18/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >>April 18, 2003 >>To: The President >>From: Karl Rove >> > >This was a joke right? I'm getting soooo confused. > >Joanna It was Robert Reich's made up letter from Rove to Bush as he imagined it-- an in your face joke but a published one. The LA Times had the humphphph to print it. best, Marta -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20030418/34fdfd7e ...

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589 [lbo-talk] "To: the President, From: Karl Rove" -- rank: 1000

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-war-oereich18apr18,1,1484639.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions COMMENTARY a d v e r t i s e m e n t Reelection? Father Didn't Know Best By Robert B. Reich Robert B. Reich, secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, is a professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University. A longer version of this article will appear in the May issue of April 18, 2003 To: The President From: Karl Rove The Iraqi war gave us a big boost, bu ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 18 13:49:17 PDT 2003

590 [lbo-talk] Bush at Boeing -- rank: 1000

> >Of course, there are other reasons why this Bush does things, but I >think that people underestimate his fundamentalist delusions of >grandeur. > >Chuck0 > Yes and lots of sober alcoholics turn to God as their new addiction. Marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 20:49:34 PDT 2003

591 [lbo-talk] Bush at Boeing -- rank: 1000

OK I am way over the top on posting today. Last one. The LA Times sports a picture of Bush giving a thumbs up to the workers at Boeing in St. Louis. He is smiling, confident, like God has smiled upon him. No boos reported. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-bush17apr17,1,493514.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Da%5Fsection The workers who gathered to hear Bush gave him a rousing welcome. And the president at times seemed ebullient. After finishing his remarks, as he prepared to get dow ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 16:43:49 PDT 2003

592 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

> > >Yeah, yeah-- you're the only one who cares. I'm disagreeing with your >analysis, but that means I just don't care about poor and working class and >disabled folks. (As I'm scambling to get a bank card for my homeless >schizophrenic brother who Washington State's budget cuts mean isn't getting >any help.) I know you do care Nathan. You would not be spending so much time on these things if you did not. But I don't agree with you that these cuts are not real possibilit ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 16:36:12 PDT 2003

593 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

> > >I was over at the local community recreation center yesterday, all 27 of >which are slated for closure under Bloomberg's recent budget. The desk >clerk there practically laughed at the threat of closure-- he told me it >happens all the time and it's done to put pressure on the state. Why all >the sophisticated theoretical debate on this list is matched by a simplistic >political analysis that even regular folks laugh at is really a puzzle to >me. > >-- Nat ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 14:30:01 PDT 2003

594 [lbo-talk] Polls about "Iraq" and "Terrorism" Re: how's it feel? -- rank: 1000

>> >>Slavoj argues, in the interview I'll be broadcasting later today, >>that the "reasoning" is this: AQ hates America, SH hates America, >>so they're all the same and must be destroyed. > >I don't think that's true. Neither AQ nor SH has been confirmed to >have died, nor have they been captured by the USG, in short, they >have not been "destroyed," but Americans don't seem to care. >-- >Yoshie > Andrew Card said in the LA Times ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 14:21:16 PDT 2003

595 [lbo-talk] California cuts still in budget -- rank: 1000

This just in the email --------How far will $8.3 billion (what Davis proposed) go? Marta Coalition for Healthy Communities, Remember to join in the "Community Tour to Save our Services" on Thursday, April 24 at 11:00am---a walking tour intended to highlight vital public services that could be reduced or eliminated by state budget cuts (please review and distribute the attached flyer). The current state budget crisis poses a serious threat to local communities. Services such as health ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 13:57:23 PDT 2003

596 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

> > >You were arguing that they were choosing to do this in preference to tax >hikes, which was false. > It wasn't false. In the beginning Davis proposed Draconion cuts. He stuck by them for months. He tinkered around with budget cuts for months. The resistance was built up. Now he decided to propose taxes. However, it still isn't clear that the taxes he has proposed are enough to offset the cuts. Poor people are being pitted against poor people here. It is just as nasty a ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 13:49:32 PDT 2003

597 [lbo-talk] Re: how's it feel? -- rank: 1000

> >There are aggressive reactionaries -- mainly young, white, and male >-- who think like that, but such a sentiment is hardly the chief one >in the USA. It was the older middle class women who snickered the loudest. Marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 13:42:34 PDT 2003

598 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

I am not aware of any movement on the Prop 13 front. Even with Prop 13 we had money to expand Medicaid and education. This deficit was in large measure caused by the collapse of the dotcom industry which caused a huge loss of state revenue. The federal government has refused to help bail out the states. New York City is in a crisis similar to California's. Why isn't there more pressure on the feds to do something? If they can give Bush $80 billion for the attack on Iraq well ........what abo ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 13:33:40 PDT 2003

599 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

>Nathan > >Damn it-- if people are just going to flat out lie about the political >situation to further their ideological monomania, why bother with the >debate. Now that you saw the post from UCP you see where I am coming from - I had not seen that Davis had switched his tune. Haven't read the papers in the last week due to lots of other stuff going on. Still ------ This move from Davis to impose taxes is late in the game. He has held out from doing so for months of budget deba ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 17 11:40:01 PDT 2003

600 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

> >Marta-- that is a completely false and disingenuous description of what's >going on. The Democrats (including even Davis who doesn't go as far as >Burton) have proposed billions in tax hikes. But under the Gann limits, >they need a two-thirds vote to pass any tax bill and the Republicans have >more than the third of votes needed to veto any tax bill. > > CA UCP Capitol Report #35-2003 >APRIL 9, 2003 - Wednesday morning > >Over 2,500 People March On State Cap ...

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