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  • Midwinter madness (The ZOTS are bored!)

    02/18/2003 6:08:47 AM PST · by buffalo are roaming · 30 replies · 236+ views
    star-telegram ^ | molly ivins
    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight David Eisenhower April 16, 1953 The news is not good. Osama bin Laden wants us to invade Iraq. As of this writing, we're at orange on the alert code. The economy is tanking. We're spending $1.08 billion a day on the military. And the president wants a $674 billion tax cut. In the first year, 50 percent of that tax cut would go the richest...
  • Seriously Dumb Tax Cut [MOLLY IVINS BARF ALERT!}

    01/10/2003 12:05:12 PM PST · by buffyt · 19 replies · 175+ views
    The Brazosport Facts, Clute Texas ^ | 1-10-2003 | Molly Ivins
    AUSTIN, Texas -- One interesting aspect of the Seriously Dumb Tax Cut we are watching develop in Washington is that we are simultaneously witnessing the effects of Seriously Dumb Tax Cuts at the state level. The states are plotzing right and left, caught in hideous binds -- whether it is better to release dangerous prisoners or cut back the schools, cut back health care for kids or nursing homes for old folks.Politically, it's notoriously difficult to oppose tax cuts precisely because the trouble doesn't show up until after the next election, but this time we have are having our noses...