Business leaders seek bigger highway bill

[Cocoa]

I fully expect the flip-flopper-in-Chief to fold on this.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=8&u=/ap/20040608/ap_on_go_co/highway_bill

WASHINGTON - The heads of 211 corporations have written President Bush urging him to accept a higher level of spending for future highway programs, saying a robust highway bill was critical to their own, and the nation's, economic growth.


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The White House has warned that Bush will levy the first veto of his presidency if Congress gives him either the Senate bill or the House-passed bill, estimated to cost about $284 billion.

The administration, saying the growing federal deficit requires greater fiscal discipline, has set a ceiling of $256 billion, but suggested it could accept $275 billion as long as the bill does not raise taxes or add to the deficit.

The CEOs and presidents said $318 billion should be the minimum acceptable, saying it would "create over 2 million American job opportunities and help address the growing deterioration of the nation's highway, bridge and transit infrastructure facilities."

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1. kick

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[Danmack]

2. Don't you just get a hoot when...

they say things like "The administration, saying the growing federal deficit requires greater fiscal discipline".

The reason there is a growing deficit is cause of their fookin tax cuts for the wealth and chimpys crusades of choice against all evil doers.

Christ, we live in la la land!!!!!

On Edit: True to form, they have cut taxes for the richest, restarted the great defense industrial complex up, which benefits the richest and have gutted the federal piggy bank. So now when we need things like roads and such there just isn't enough money!!!

God how I hate republicans to the core of my being!!!!!