Sleight of hand? (Hit Piece on Bush Tax Plan! **CHECK OUT THE "EXPERT" CNN USES!**)

CNNFN.com ^ | 5/9/03 | By Mark Gongloff, CNN/Money Staff Writer

[Recovering_Democrat]

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - President Bush promises his tax-cut plan will create jobs, but the numbers his economic advisers have produced don't add up...

"The striking thing is just the falseness of the claim that 1.4 million jobs are created, in light of their own model. There's a basic element of fraud in that claim," said Max Sawicky, the EPI labor economist who wrote the EPI note about the CEA projection.

Sawicky and some other economists doubt Bush's claims that cutting taxes will stimulate job growth even in the short term. They call for measures that could have a more immediate effect, such as giving money to cash-strapped state governments or extending unemployment benefits.

[Recovering_Democrat]

There's a basic element of fraud in that claim," said Max Sawicky, the EPI labor economist who wrote the EPI note about the CEA projection.

One would think Max Sawicky is a man who might care about real job growth and creation. One would be mistaken.

Max has a website called "maxspeak.org" and here are a few of his favorite POLITICAL LINKS from his "favorite places" section of his web site:

Americans for Democratic Action
Political Research Associates ("Public Eye") --researching the Right
The Labor Party
The Green Party
Democratic Socialists of America
Committees of Correspondence
Solidarity/Against the Current
Communist Party--USA
Socialist Party--USA
Alliance for Democracy

Amazing. Sawicky's LEFT WING IDEOLOGY IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE CNNFN.COM PIECE!

I dare say Mr. Gongloff, who purportedly penned the article, never even bothered to research the biases and motivations behind what Mr. Sawicky was saying.

[Huck]

labor economist = commie pinko. And I daresay Mr. Gongloff knew it.

[ChuckMartelRox]

Oh oh...looks like CNN got caught.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Oh oh...looks like CNN got caught..... again

I wonder what they are not telling us again this time.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

The left is really putting the full court press on this bill this time. They must fear it quite a bit.

I guess when that's all you have left, you go with what you've got.

[ChuckMartelRox]

Isn't CNN an objective network? If so, why would they present someone as an impartial expert, who in reality is a far left ideologue?

[ChuckMartelRox]

"What's the matter with you people?"

This abusive language shows a lack of interest in good-faith substantive discussion.