Congress Passes $373B Spending Bill!!

BloodTrader · Jan 28, 2004

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Bush announces new US military aid for Poland

www.chinaview.cn 2004-01-28

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush Tuesday announced a 66-million-dollar package of military aid for Poland, a key US ally in Iraq.
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Payola.

Pabst · Jan 28, 2004

Quote from TMTrader:

He spends our money all while he and his wealthy friends from Texas enjoy the fruits of his spending...
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Wow. You are SO deep.

BloodTrader · Jan 28, 2004

Quote from Pabst:

Wow. You are SO deep.
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Stand anybody up next dubya and they look deep, really deep.

aphexcoil · Jan 28, 2004

Quote from PoundTheRock:

Those fat-ass politicians have no idea how deeply they're digging their own grave. Payback's a bitch.
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The only problem is that they are digging all our graves in the process!

Madison · Feb 10, 2004

what is the tab for iraq reconstruction, again?

Amtrak president derides funding proposal
By Leslie Miller, Associated Press Writer, 2/10/2004

WASHINGTON -- Amtrak President David Gunn said Tuesday that President Bush's proposal to give the railroad just over half what it sought in federal subsidies would shut it down just as more passengers than ever are taking the train.

For Fiscal 2005 starting in October, Amtrak formally asked for $1.798 billion, or about $300 million more than it received for 2004. That includes a $570 million operating subsidy, repayment of a $100 million government loan and $791 million for replacing rails and ties, repairing bridges and overhauling major equipment.

Bush proposed giving the railroad $900 million in the new budget year.

"The president's number is a shutdown number," Gunn said during a meeting with reporters.

Gunn, who took over at Amtrak 20 months ago, said he expects more than 25 million people will ride Amtrak during the current budget year, which began last Oct. 1, breaking the previous record of 24 million.

Tight financial controls in 2003 left the railroad with $148 million in the bank. The work force was cut to 19,976 at the end of December from 23,393 in May 2002. Signal cables were replaced, bridges were retimbered and wrecked cars rebuilt.

Gunn said he does support the Bush administration's proposal to require the states to help pick up the tab for new rail corridors between cities. A plan to connect Portland, Ore., to Seattle is ready to go and awaiting a commitment of funds from the federal government, he said.

Though Congress gave Amtrak $600 million less than the $1.8 billion Gunn said it needed in 2003, the railroad's shortfall is only about $280 million, he said. That's because the railroad wasn't required to repay a $100 million loan it received to ward off a shutdown in the summer of 2002, and because it carried over $148 million from last year and revised the amount of interest it must pay on its debt.
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aphexcoil · Feb 10, 2004

So hypothetically speaking, what would happen if Amtrak went out of business? Would the railroads get picked up by someone else?

Sardo_Numspa · Feb 10, 2004

Quote from waggie945:

Bush is FOR Big Government and Big Deficits.
And many Republicans like myself are not happy about this at all!
He spends as if he is a little kid in a Candy Store, and that Candy Store happens to be OUR money!

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Yep, sad. Both parties are tax and spend now. Sigh...

Madison · Feb 11, 2004

Bush seeks $1 trillion debt boost

By Patrice Hill
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Bush, saying the economic recovery is firmly in place, yesterday proposed adding $1 trillion to the national debt to fund the cost of shifting to a partially privatized Social Security system.

The massive increase in debt, coming on top of a $7 trillion national debt that is growing by about $500 billion a year, adds controversy to what was already promising to be a difficult reform to get enacted.
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Nolan-Vinny-Sam · Feb 11, 2004

lest not forget!!!!!
The war spendings Afghanistan and Iraq are NOT EVEN INCLUDED in scumya's budgets
what a crock o shit

long live the mushrooms errr... taxpayers

waggie945 · Feb 11, 2004

And wasn't it amazing that we didn't even hear one mention of Osama bin Laden during Bush's State of the Union Address?

Unreal.