Phil Wolff: shrubberyThe hillarious antics of Dubya and his gang.Welfare Legislation Approved by House.- February 14, 2003 The House approved Republican welfare legislation today requiring more single mothers to work and providing hundreds of millions of dollars to promote marriage. Take mothers from their children, don't fund day care, defund training and education for social mobility. And assume bad times only strike once in a life time. The radical right continues to get paid. More "shrubbery". via Headlines From The NY Timeshttp://nyt.weblogs.com/2003/02/13.html#a66549 Jobless man: 9-11 was our 1929.- February 4, 2003 Sandwiched between a rock and a hard placeJobless man sees plight as sign of the timesSan Francisco Chronicle Feb 2 2003 5:52AM ET "I really believe we're heading into another worldwide Great Depression, and I don't see anything being done to change that direction," says Weiss. "Sept. 11 was our 1929." "When I was a kid, the old-timers said they survived because people helped each other. We're going to have to learn to do that again." The Bush Depression.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/02/BU18842.DTL Bush quashing unpleasant employment stats.- February 1, 2003 From Business Week, February 10, 2003 issue : BUSH LEAGUE Stats: Now You See 'em... Since President Bush took office two years ago, the economy has lost some 1.7 million jobs, making job creation a sore point around the White House. Now, either by coincidence or by design, two agencies have taken actions that make the Administration's unremarkable record on jobs a little harder to spot. The President's own Council of Economic Advisers has yanked off its Web site a study predicting mediocre...http://www.businessweek.com/@@f0J7smUQBx74CRAA/premium/content/03_06/c3819014.htm |