Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 28 July 2002

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network):Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill and former Vanguard Mutual Funds chief executive John C. Bogle

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.) and Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), National Economic Council Director Lawrence B. Lindsey, Pfizer Inc. chief executive Henry A. McKinnell and Blackstone Group Chairman Peter G. Peterson.

LATE EDITION (CNN): King Abdullah of Jordan, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Don Nickles (R-Okla.), AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, economic analyst John J. Castellani, Orange County, Calif., District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and National Economic Council Director Lawrence B. Lindsey.

Your predecessor Robert Rubin has spoken out on this whole issue with Newspeak magazine, and I’ll show you and our viewers here: ”[Robert] Rubin, Clinton’s former treasury secretary, says an ‘adjustment’ is essential. He says that the 10-year, $1.5 trillion tax cut is a much bigger threat to the economy than the corporate scandals. Rubin suggests a kind of domestic ‘loya jirga’ (a big Afghan council) on the economy. ‘Get everyone together and put everything on the table,’ he says. ‘We don’t have to “raise” taxes, we just have to postpone or cancel what would otherwise happen in the later years.’ The fact is, deficits are once again the biggest threat to the economy. We’ve gone in less than two years from $5 trillion worth of surplus to new and growing deficits as far as the eye can see. That’s having its own effect on the markets.” Do you agree?

News-speak?...Is that a publication founded in Orwellian "double-speak".

”[Robert] Rubin, Clinton’s former treasury secretary, says an ‘adjustment’ is essential. He says that the 10-year, $1.5 trillion tax cut is a much bigger threat to the economy than the corporate scandals. Rubin suggests a kind of domestic ‘loya jirga’ (a big Afghan council) on the economy. ‘Get everyone together and put everything on the table,’ he says. ‘We don’t have to “raise” taxes, we just have to postpone or cancel what would otherwise happen in the later years.’ The fact is, deficits are once again the biggest threat to the economy. We’ve gone in less than two years from $5 trillion worth of surplus to new and growing deficits as far as the eye can see.

----Talk about Orwellian "double-speak"...Robert "Enron-Goldman-Sach" Rubin quoted, disclaiming reality and spreading outright lies, i.e. "double-speak".

Hey Rubin!!!!...Tax cuts stimulate the economy and "deficit spending" is purely a democRAT fault!!!...Scumbag NBC/CNN/DNC/Robert Rubin...SCUMBAGS.

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