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PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN - THE BETRAYAL IS NOW COMPLETE NewsWithViews.com By David Brownlow May 9, 2003Source A politician would have a hard time finding a more loyal special interest group than with those of us who oppose the legalized child killing industry. For the last thirty years of the war on the unborn, we have worked tirelessly to elect pro-life, mostly Republican, politicians. Our loyalty was so strong that even though the Republicans failed to deliver us a single pro-life victory, we continued to send them back to Washington year after year. For thirty years, we trusted the Republicans...

Bush Calls for Full $15 Billion for AIDS in Africa Reuters By Patricia Wilson July 12, 2003 10:08 AM ET President Bush pledged on Saturday to help Africa in its "courageous fight" against AIDS and called on the U.S. Congress to fully fund his $15 billion plan to combat the disease. At the last stop on his five-day, five-nation African tour, Bush also said Washington would stand with its friends and allies to end regional wars. He and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo were expected to discuss the possibility of the United States contributing troops to a mainly African peacekeeping force...

<p>In just five years, a demographic tidal wave will begin that will forever alter the federal government. The large baby boom generation (search) will start retiring and cause the costs of Social Security (search) and Medicare to explode.</p> <p>Unfortunately, Congress seems blissfully unaware of the coming crisis as it works to create another elderly entitlement in the form of a $400 billion Medicare prescription drug benefit.</p>

<p>Ted Kennedy has spent his career attempting to nationalize the American health care system. So maybe Republicans should take a hint when the Democrat from Massachusetts says he is delighted with the emerging GOP plans to "reform" Medicare.</p> <p>As for taxpayers, they should be petrified. What began as a worthy attempt by President Bush to reform the broken retiree health system is fast becoming in Congress little more than a giant new entitlement. Republicans are compromising with themselves so fast that we're beginning to wonder what the point of having a GOP majority really is.</p>

FIASCO OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE Newsmax.com By Thomas Sowell September 14, 2000 Now that the presidential candidates are trying to outbid each other for the votes of the elderly, by offering to have the government pay for their prescription drugs, it is time for the voters to start thinking for themselves - if that is still possible, after decades of dumbed-down education. We all know the political image of the poverty-stricken senior citizen, forced to choose between food and badly needed medicine. Before we react emotionally to such contrived political images, we should ask ourselves: Would this terrible choice be any...

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE: THE FIX IS IN Worldnetdaily By Neal Boortz June 17, 2003 The American people want it, and the Congress is going to give it to them. Stand by for prescription-drug coverage under Medicare. The initial cost, we're told, will be about $40 billion a year. Look for $100 billion a year before you buy your next car. Step by step ... here is how it's going to work. Print this and save it for future reference. You will be able to show it to your children or grandchildren to help explain why the government is taking 60 percent...

MEDICARE DRUG BILL SEEN BUSTING THE BANK - Analysis calls benefit for seniors impending financial disaster Worldnetdaily By Jon Dougherty June 17, 2003 Congress appears poised this year to pass a prescription-drug benefit for seniors as part of an overall Medicare reform package, but the new entitlement could put serious financial pressure on younger taxpayers and the U.S. Treasury for decades to come, say analysts. "With the support of the Bush administration, or at least with the White House's passive acquiesce, Congress appears on course to enacting a huge new entitlement aimed at middle-income Americans," writes Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D.,...

THE MEDICARE DRUG BILL: An Impending Disaster For All Americans The Heritage Foundation By Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D. June 13, 2003 Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. With the support of the Bush Administration, or at least with the White House’s passive acquiesce, Congress appears on course to enacting a huge new entitlement aimed at middle-income Americans. President Bush likely...

<p>President Bush yesterday scaled back his proposed tax cut by nearly 25 percent in an effort to prod Congress into passing the measure in time to stimulate the economy before next year's election.</p> <p>After insisting for months that he would not budge from his 10-year cut of $726 billion, Mr. Bush yesterday endorsed a $550 billion compromise that was passed by the House. The Senate is pushing for an even smaller cut of $350 billion.</p>

<p>Unhappy with President Bush's decision to support continuation of a controversial gun ban passed during the Clinton administration, many gun owners say they'll dump Bush in 2004 and vote for someone else if he signs new legislation extending the prohibition.</p> <p>Angel Shamaya, founder and executive director of the KeepAndBearArms.com website, said in a single day some 4,300 people responded to a poll on the site asking if respondents would continue to support Bush if he renewed a ban on so-called "assault weapons," initially passed in 1994.</p>

<p>President Bush has announced through a spokesman that he supports a federal ban on firearms labeled "assault weapons" – a law set to expire before the next presidential election.</p> <p>The administration was somewhat mysterious as to whether that support would extend to promoting an extension of the legislation.</p> <p>The president is wrong – plain and simple.</p>

<p>In this column dated December 17, 2002, I predicted that President G.W. Bush would support the so-called assault weapons ban first promoted by former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Diane Feinstein back in 1994. Interestingly enough, the gun ban became law on the strength of a tie-breaking vote by then Vice President Al Gore. The ban is scheduled to sunset next year, but Bush is joining Clinton and Gore in supporting an extension.</p> <p>Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said, "The president supports the current law (the Clinton gun ban), and he supports reauthorization of the current law."</p>

<p>Whatever happened to the GOP's crusade against bloated government? President Bush's $2.25 trillion budget released Monday is almost 30 percent larger than the budget he inherited three years ago. Since the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, the budget has grown by 50 percent. If the Republicans are fighting a war against big spenders, the big spenders are winning.</p>

Bush’s Achilles’ Heel Government Spending Is Out Of Control. National Review Online By Veronique de Rugy February 11, 2003 Is there much to celebrate in George W. Bush's proposed 2004 budget? To be sure, the president is proposing meaningful tax reform that will make America more competitive and move us closer to a simple and fair flat tax. Yet before we rush to give the administration an "A," let's open up the budget and take a look at some of the gory details. Sadly, a cursory inspection reveals that the president is engaged in an overspending frenzy that continues to...

The State Of Big Government President Bush's State of the Union address was one part stirring rhetoric, five parts socialist vaporings for even more unrestrained Big Government. The New American By Steve Bonta February 24, 2003 Back in the summer of 2000, when the Bush-Gore presidential race was gathering steam, syndicated columnist Charley Reese painted a very complimentary picture of candidate Bush. The choice facing voters, he opined in one column, was between "saving the country" (voting for Bush) and "committing national suicide" (voting for Gore). Continued Reese, "my Dad used to say that whenever America got into trouble, somehow...

Bush Calls for $400 Billion in Medicare Spending Bush Calls for $400B in New Medicare Spending; Will Offer Prescription Drug Benefit GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Jan. 29 — President Bush said Wednesday that $400 billion in new Medicare spending over a decade would make sure the program "fulfills its promise to our seniors" by adding flexibility and offering a prescription drug benefit for the first time. The broad overhaul of the 38-year-old program that Bush envisions would be a huge undertaking. But introducing market mechanisms to Medicare by increasing the reliance on cheaper private health plans to treat the elderly is...

IDs for Illegals - The 'Matricula Consular Advances Mexico's Immigration Agenda Center For Immigration Studies By Marti Dinerstein January, 2003 In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a migration deal with Mexico was tabled while attention turned to homeland security. So, the Mexican government abruptly changed its White House strategy and substituted a grass roots approach that would focus at the local level, seek small successes, and build momentum for Congressional action. The lynchpin for this new strategy was to be the "matricula consular," an official identity card issued by the Mexican government, which they wanted to be officially...

<p>WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and immigration reform groups blasted the Bush administration Tuesday for quietly allowing Mexico to distribute thousands of identification cards to Mexican nationals to help them reap the benefits offered in the United States.</p> <p>Matricula consular cards are being doled out by the Mexican government at $25 a pop and are good for five years. All a Mexican national needs is a birth certificate and a photo ID issued either in the United States or Mexico, and he or she can use the card to obtain social services in the United States, open bank or utility accounts and obtain building permits.</p>

Bush Likely to Project Record Budget Deficits Reuters By Adam Entous January 28, 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush is likely to project record U.S. budget deficits this fiscal year and next, even without the cost of a possible war with Iraq, White House budget director Mitch Daniels said on Tuesday. Previewing Bush's budget blueprint for fiscal 2004, scheduled for release on Monday, Daniels told Reuters spending on homeland security would increase from this year's level by nearly 8 percent to around $40 billion. Bush is also expected to propose spending nearly $400 billion over 10 years to modernize Medicare...

The Mexican Fifth Column CNSNews.com By Tom DeWeese Commentary January 27, 2003 Illegal immigration is about much more than fighting terrorism. Illegal Mexicans are pouring across our borders and, as a result, American tax-paid services like education and healthcare are being pushed to the brink of collapse. Each new report of activities along our 2,000-mile border with Mexico appears to be more outrageous than the last. On January 22, the nation's newspapers reported that Hispanics now outnumber Blacks in America with a population that has grown to 37 million, up 4.7% from the 2000 Census. On the same day, The...