Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean wants to improve the nation's cities by putting $100 billion toward creating a million jobs, increasing the federal minimum wage to $7 an hour, and providing credit for urban businesses. ...
His plan would set up a national fund to provide a permanent source of funding to build, rehabilitate and preserve affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families, and double the amount for the Community Development Block Grant program to $10 billion. full story
Gee, I wonder where he plans to get the money for these programs?
Maybe we can use Saddam's stash:
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Saddam Hussein has acknowledged depositing billions of dollars abroad before his ouster and has given interrogators the names of people who know where the money is, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council said in remarks published Monday. The U.S.-appointed council estimates that the Iraqi dictator seized $40 billion while in power and is now searching for that amount deposited in Switzerland, Japan, Germany and other countries, Iyad Allawi told the London-based Arab newspapers Al-Hayat and Asharq al-Awsat. rest of story
Democrats schooling Dean on foreign policy
When Dean decided he wanted an extensive tutorial on foreign policy in August, his advisers arranged a six-hour seminar at a hotel outside Washington, featuring a private class on Iraq and other areas of the Middle East from Madeleine K. Albright, former secretary of state.
Could Maddy have been the nudge to make Dean say that theory of GWB knowing about 9/11 before it happened was interesting? If she's crazy enough to believe the Bush Administration was holding OBL to use for the next election she's crazy enough to believe GWB knew about 9/11.
How did we survive these dangerous loons?
Speaking of dangerous loons... This is a Byron York piece on George Soros.