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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN NOV 30, 2003 20:42:05 ET XXXXX HOLLYWOOD DEMS GATHER FOR 'HATE BUSH' MEETING AT HILTON **Exclusive** Top Hollywood activists and intellectuals are planning to gather this week in Beverly Hills for an event billed as 'Hate Bush,' the DRUDGE REPORT has learned! Laurie David [wife of SEINFELD creator Larry David] has sent out invites to the planned Tuesday evening meeting at the Hilton with the bold heading: 'Hate Bush 12/2 - Event' The message reads: "This is the most important meeting you can attend to prevent the advancement of the current extremist right wing agenda....

Official debt versus real obligations. The official federal debt is some $9.5 trillion, of which about $5.3 trillion is held by the investing public and $4.2 trillion is held in government accounts such as the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. But the official liabilities pale in comparison with the off-book entitlements — obligations to pay current and future Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Unfortunately, there is a gigantic gap between the value of future tax collections and the value of future entitlement payments. Economists call this the fiscal gap: the present value difference between the government's projected future...