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Reuters: Defense Spending Driving US Economy @ http://reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=3196574 National Priorities Project @ http://www.nationalpriorities.org/ NYT: Senators Assail Pentagon Aide for lack
of postwar details @ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/30/international/worldspecial/30POST.html If you want to know more, go to http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/defensedollars.html
for more details and breakdown of the US defense budget, which is
said to account for the majority of federal spending in nearly every
state. Related sources: OMB Budget of the US 2004 @ http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/ Congressional Budget Office @ http://www.cbo.gov/ Phase 2: create jobs by trashing the environment
and ignoring already settled lawsuits, or just bypassing those inconvenient checks
and balances with administrative rule making. Also, whenever things get really difficult and science doesn’t
cooperate, call Karl Rove to get an agency decision reversed (and if you live
in a state where Campaign 2004 wants to win you can bypass public comment and
science in one day). Note: while the Energy Act 2003 has yet to be finalized, it leans
heavily on the past and corporate donations, as expected, though dropping the
notorious ANWR provisions. It also,
before Conference Committee behind closed doors, frees up the electric
utilities grid to more mergers – creating the possibility of more Enrons - (Sen. Dominici is
the Senate’s biggest recipient of this utility’s largesse) and promotes nuclear
power (as in plutonium – did anyone check that out with Homeland Security?). Forget renewables or new research,
except in small amounts that allow you to say you promoted it. Bush commits to increased timber cutting @ http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1060430945320070.xml
(due to registration, see attached) Senate rejects tougher fuel standards @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64887-2003Jul29.html GOP blocks changes in power industry bill @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5681-2003Jul30.html |
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