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Kerry's budget fallacies
Washington Times ^ | 4/17/04

Posted on 04/17/2004 4:16:26 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Having spent 15 months promising one new big-spending program after another, John Kerry finally got around to offering his "budget plan" in a recent speech at Georgetown University. He earned an A in rhetoric and an F in math.

Citing a "fiscal cancer" that he blamed on the Bush administration, Mr. Kerry's speech was filled with distortions. In particular, for fiscal 2009, the year by which Mr. Kerry pledges to cut the current deficit in half, his rhetoric seems to exceed his math by a cool trillion dollars.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; issues; kerry; kerrybudget; kerryeconomics

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