Category: president bush
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Economy
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN1636789220071216?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&rpc=23&sp=true">Greenspan sees early signs of U.S. stagflation</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The U.S. economy is showing early signs of stagflation as growth threatens to stall while food and energy prices soar, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Sunday.</blockquote><br />n<br />nDamn, I remember the 70's and the stagflation that gripped the country then. It was…
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President Ready To Vote No
What does the administration <a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/11/0329.xml">think of the Senate Farm Bill</a>?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>I am pleased to have this opportunity to outline the Administration's very significant concerns about the Senate farm bill being debated on the floor of the Senate this week. The Statement of Administration Policy, or SAP as we refer to it, will be…
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Will He Sign?
Will President Bush sign the <a href="http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2007/05/25/ag_news/updates/update24.txt">disaster aid/assistance</a> that Congress recently passed? He has never been a big fan of Agricultural disaster aid but he might sign this one. <br />n<br />nI have been <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/plugin/freetag/disaster+aid">talking about this disaster aid</a> for a while. A lot of it is drought assistance for the last couple of…
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Drought Aid Dead, For Now
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/06/news/state/55-drought.txt" >Drought aid derailed again</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Congressional efforts to provide billions of dollars in agricultural disaster aid were thwarted again Tuesday, leaving the issue to languish until Democrats take over both chambers in January.<br />n<br />nNorth Dakota Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, both Democrats, attempted to attach $4.8 billion in aid for struggling…
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Priorities
So, there is nothing in our country, or the world, more important for the President to deal with than the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201519.html">Gay marriage issue</a>? Spiraling deficits, corruption, energy policy, Iraq, Iran, Inflation or many other things all take a back burner to this all important issue?<br />n<br />nSOMEBODY AROUND HERE NEEDS TO GET THEIR PRIORITIES…
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Immigration Debate
The big news today is the President's speech last night on immigration and his proposal to send <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMMIGRATION?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"> National guard</a> troops to help shore up our Southern border. I've watched all this Immigration debate going on for the past couple of months and wondered, why has this become such a hot issue all of…