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Impeach George Bush
And the Administration Goes on Lying
Source: LA Times, 2003-12-29
Candidate: President George Bush
Those of us who live in the real world - who don't walk around completely hypnotized by the endless spin coming out of the White House - know that wages have dropped precipitously over the last three years, and that jobs for the middle class have disappeared forever, creating a permanent underclass in the US.
By David Streitfeld, Times Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO Lisa Gluskin has had a tough three years. She works almost as hard as she did during the dot-com boom, for about 20% of the income.
When Gluskin's writing and editing business cratered in 2001, she slashed her rates, began studying for a graduate degree and started teaching part time at a Lake Tahoe community college for a meager wage.
It's been a fragmented, hand-to-mouth life, one that she sees mirrored by friends and colleagues who are waiting tables or delivering packages. In the late '90s, the 35-year-old Gluskin says, "we had careers. We had trajectories. Now we have complicated lives. We're not unemployed, but we're underemployed."
The nation's official jobless rate is 5.9%, a relatively benign level by historical standards. But economists say that figure paints only a partial and artificially rosy picture of the labor market.
To begin with, there are the 8.7 million unemployed, defined as those without a job who are actively looking for work. But lurking behind that group are 4.9 million part-time workers such as Gluskin who say they would rather be working full time the highest number in a decade.
There are also the 1.5 million people who want a job but didn't look for one in the last month. Nearly a third of this group say they stopped the search because they were too depressed about the prospect of finding anything. Officially termed "discouraged," their number has surged 20% in a year.
Add these three groups together and the jobless total for the U.S. hits 9.7%, up from 9.4% a year ago.
No wonder the Democratic presidential candidates have seized on jobs as a potentially powerful weapon.
Howard Dean criticized President Bush for "the worst job creation record in over 60 years." Richard Gephardt said that "I have three goals for my presidency: jobs, jobs, jobs." John Kerry said "the first thing" he'd do as president would be to fight his "heart out" to bring back the jobs that have disappeared in recent years.
Bush, meanwhile, is quick to seize credit where he can. When the unemployment rate for November fell one-tenth of a point, he went out immediately to give a speech at a Home Depot in Maryland.
"More workers are going to work, over 380,000 have joined the workforce in the last couple of months," Bush said. "We've overcome a lot."
A number of economists say it's a mistake to evaluate the job market solely by talking about the official unemployment rate. It's a blunt instrument for assessing a condition that is growing ever more vague.
"There's certainly an arbitrariness to the official rate," says Princeton University economics professor Alan Krueger. "It irks me that it's not put in proper perspective."
On Jan. 9, when the rate for December is announced, both Republicans and Democrats will assuredly again maneuver for advantage precisely because the number isn't expected to change much.
"At this point, where we don't know which way it's going but it isn't likely to be going far, both sides will try to use it," says Michael Lewis-Beck, a political scientist at the University of Iowa.
In every election since 1960, the party in the White House lost when the unemployment rate deteriorated during the first half of the year. If the rate improved, the party in the White House won.
That's not a coincidence, says Lewis-Beck, who has edited several volumes on how economic conditions determine elections. "People see the president as the chief executive of the economy," he says. "They punish him if things are deteriorating and reward him if things are improving."
By any normal standard, things should have been improving on the employment front long before this point. More than 2 million jobs have been lost in the last three years, a period that encompassed a brief, nasty recession and a recovery that was anemic until recently. Even in the best-case scenario, Bush will end this term with a net job loss. That hasn't happened to a president since Herbert Hoover at the beginning of the Depression.
Many economists are mystified about why a suddenly booming economy is producing so few jobs.
"We're all sitting there and saying, 'When are they going to return?' " says Richard B. Freeman, director of the labor studies program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. "It's looking a little better, but we don't understand why it isn't looking a lot better. Why shouldn't Bush be sitting there saying, 'Man, I'm sitting pretty. This is a great boom'?"
One statistic proving particularly perplexing is the percentage of the adult population that is employed. This number rises during good times, as people are lured into the workforce, and falls during recessions as companies falter.
True to form, the percentage of adult Americans with jobs dropped from a high of 64.8% in April 2000, just as the stock market was cresting, to 62% in September the lowest level in a decade. If past recessions are any guide, those 5 million people who found themselves jobless should have driven the unemployment rate up to about 8%.
Instead, the rate never went much above 6%.
"More than half of the additional people who would have reported themselves as unemployed in a previous big recessionary period
aren't," a puzzled UC Berkeley economist, Brad DeLong, wrote on his website. "They're reporting themselves as out of the labor force instead."
"Out of the labor force" means you're not working for even one hour a week and don't want to, either. It's the traditional category for students, married women with young children, flush retirees and idle millionaires.
A new way that people seem to be joining this category is by getting themselves declared disabled. This designation makes them eligible for government payments while removing them from the unemployment rolls.
From 1983 to 2000, economists David Autor and Mark Duggan wrote in a recent study, the number of non-elderly adults receiving government disability payments doubled from 3.8 million to 7.7 million.
The scholars present a case that the sharp increase isn't because the workplace suddenly became more dangerous. Instead, it has been prompted by liberalized screening policies, which make it possible to claim disabled status for, say, several small impairments as opposed to one big injury. Government examinations also have been downplayed in favor of the disabled's own medical records and the pain he or she claims to be experiencing.
At the same time, benefits have been sweetened. As a result, millions of individuals who lost jobs now have an attractive and permanent alternative to searching for work.
Autor and Duggan concluded that if disability payments weren't so appealing, many more people would be unemployed, boosting the jobless rate two-thirds of a point.
Another way in which people forgo an appearance on the unemployment rolls is if they decide to go into business for themselves. There are 9.6 million people who say they are self-employed full time, a number that rose 118,000 last month. Without the recent increase in self-employed, the jobless number would look much worse.
Many others may be working for themselves part time, temporarily, as a way to get food on the table in the absence of better options.
Take Steve Fahringer, who until recently was working for a Bay Area marketing agency that cut 20% of its employees and trimmed the wages of the remainder by 20%. Fahringer didn't particularly like his job. Because the recession supposedly was history, he thought he could find a new position. The 34-year-old didn't think it would be easy, but he thought it possible. So he quit.
"I left July 1," he says. "I haven't found a new job yet."
It's a common problem. The segment of the labor force that has been jobless for more than 15 weeks has risen nearly 150% since 2000. The current level is the highest since the recession of the early 1990s. Nearly one-quarter of the jobless have been unemployed for longer than six months.
In Fahringer's case, he spent some time aggressively looking for a job, which made him part of the official July unemployment rate of 6.2%. Then he stopped looking, which meant that he was one small reason the rate started going down.
Instead of unemployed, Fahringer was classified as "discouraged." A little more than 8% of the people who want a job in the Bay Area are estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be discouraged, slightly higher than Los Angeles/Long Beach but lower than the battered technology center of San Jose.
Discouraged workers have never been included in unemployment rates, although they came close the last time a commission met to reform the system, a quarter of a century ago. "It was a very hot issue," remembers Glen Cain, a retired economist who was a commission member. He says the conservatives on the panel, who felt that anyone who really wanted a job should be out there hustling no matter what, prevailed.
Fahringer found an alternative way to earn a bit of money. He did some acrylic paintings, which he sold for a total of $1,000. He calls himself "a hobbyist," which means for a while he moved out of the labor force entirely.
Now he's a temp, assigned by his agency to a nonprofit office. For the first time in six months, he's working 40 hours a week. By the government's accounting, he has once again joined the ranks of the employed. But from the standpoint of his wallet, Fahringer is worse off: He's earning less money, with no paid holidays, no sick leave, no pension plan, no health insurance, no future.
The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning Washington think tank, says Fahringer's situation is in many ways typical. The industries that were expanding in the late '90s, including computer and professional services, paid well.
Those industries are in retreat. So is manufacturing, a traditional source of high wages. On the rise, meanwhile, are lower-paying service jobs.
During the boom, it was easy to trade up. Now it's just as easy to trade down.
Fahringer's solution: Opt out.
"I'm thinking of going back to school," he says. "I'd take out a loan." That would put him out of the labor force again.
In some eyes, a nation of burger flippers, temps and Wal-Mart clerks isn't the worst scenario for the economy. The worst is that companies continue to eliminate jobs faster than they create them, setting up a game of musical chairs for the labor force.
That prospect alarms Erica Groshen, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "If you plot job losses versus gains on a chart, it's shocking," she says.
Losses are running at about the same rate they were in 1997 and 1998, two good years for the economy. But job creation in the first quarter of 2003 the most recent period available was only 7.4 million, the lowest since 1993.
"If this goes on too long, you'd have to worry there's something fundamentally wrong," Groshen says. Although the economy has picked up since March, "so far I haven't seen anything that suggests job creation is picking up."
That bodes poorly for Ian Golder. His last full-time job was with a start-up publication that wrote about venture capital.
Two years ago, Golder was laid off. It was the first time since he graduated from UC Berkeley 14 years earlier that he didn't have steady work.
Golder looked for a while, gave up for a while, then landed a contracting gig with no benefits proofreading for a chip maker. When that ran out, he worked 20 hours a month on a financial services newsletter.
His wife, Heather, a recent graduate in English from UC Davis, also was without a job. They thought about selling their house in Sacramento and moving, but prospects didn't look any better anywhere else. To make ends meet, they took in two boarders.
At the beginning of December, things seemed to improve a bit. Golder got a job in the document-control department of a medical devices company. The department, he was told, used to have 20 full-time people. Now it has five, plus four temps.
The job will last two months. After that, who knows?
"Optimists say things will be better then," Golder says. "But a full-time position with benefits seems pretty remote."
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User Originated Comments:
From: H. Serratos
1999-11-30 00:00:00
it seems to me, that this country of lazy people,
is the real problem. people are never satisified
with the money they make for the work they do.
most complain of not enough money, but do nothing
to better the situation they work in (only
interested in pay check). example one friend told
me that his workers were going out on strike, but
when he was working, he always bragged obout how
little he did for the company, but was ready to
strike when the company did not match there
demands. so what i'm saying is (who is at fault
here) the co. or the laborer, that's why many
co.'s
take there business elswhere.
From: Kyrstal
1999-11-30 00:00:00
please do not feel like i am a no good slob
mouthing off at you and not being respectfull.
when i read your article, i felt for you and the
woman in the article and for everyone whose wage
is being drastically cut!! honestly. but on the
other hand most of the years i was working, i was
getting minimum wages and then i worked for myself
and got really good money and this is the point i
am getting at...the people who looked down at me
and others because we were gettting wages that
didn't come up to there standards. which is
impossible...no one can have that. now as you
might realize, i am only talking about the ones
who actually are the snobs, not you or the ones
who look at us as an equal human being! i'm only
expressing my opinion of how some of the well off,
as regards money behave. i am only expressing the
truth and the dismay and anger i feel because of
certain people thinking that...solution, if
everyone was given respect cl-sses from grade one
upwards and social cl-sses we've have far less
problems, in society.
to albert - that is
the point of the la times comment. you don't have
to feel that you are lucky to just have enough to
feed yourself and your family and dog...another
solution - instead of the well-off belly aching
that they have lost their wages...i mean this
seriously - why when they had their really good
paying job -were not out lobbying for the people
who "had" to work on substandard wages like
working for the minimum wages. now those ones who
thumbed those nose down at us are having a hard
time paying the morgage and for their trinkets
they really don't need! maybe then we can all live
together to right this system so all can have a
decent or really decent wage, so we all can have
what we need and a little more!! why shouldn't all
have at least 1 marble floor? if they want
one!
thank you. i'm trying to make a
difference where it really counts, like many
people. if you are concerned with sexual
har-ssment, i invite you to look at my web
site:
http://hometown.aol.com/rstarst/myhomep
age/profile.html
From: albert g.
1999-11-30 00:00:00
working man ; you didn't tell us what kind of jobs
they are. we here in so cal. also got plenty jobs
in sales. i mean door to door sales-man. all based
on commission , you be glad to make enough to feed
your dog and your self.
From: You\'ve got to be kidding me!
1999-11-30 00:00:00
your liberal rhetoric and spin is a joke!
From: Working Man
1999-11-30 00:00:00
the "employment" section of our local newspaper is
22 pages and lists thousands of jobs. quit
bitching and get one.
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| The Boy Who Cried Weapons of Mass Destruction | 2-15-2004
| Molly Ivins Wants Us to Remember | 2-13-2004
| She's Baaaack | 2-12-2004
| Still AWOL | 2-11-2004
| AWOL II - Silver Spoon Service | 2-11-2004
| George Bush - The Lost Year | 2-10-2004
| AWOL? ! | 2-9-2004
| Kean will Subpoena Bush | 2-8-2004
| President Sets Out Commission Task | 2-7-2004
| BOOBS | 2-7-2004
| Bush the Bull | 2-6-2004
| Tom Daschle Answers Bush Budget | 2-6-2004
| Bush's Record | 2-6-2004
| Moving Right Along | 2-5-2004
| There was No Failure of Intelligence | 2-4-2004
| Liar, Incompetent or Space Cadet? | 2-2-2004
| Excuses, Excuses | 2-2-2004
| Join with Move On to ask Congress to Censure the President | 2-1-2004
| Irony Polarizes Planet | 2-1-2004
| Another Opening, Another Show | 1-31-2004
| Oh Ari, Ari | 1-30-2004
| The Dog ate my Weapons of Mass Destructions | 1-30-2004
| Leader or Mis-Leader | 1-30-2004
| Where's the Apology? | 1-29-2004
| Bush and Hussein | 1-29-2004
| U.S. off to Afghanistan, again. | 1-29-2004
| Bush, Alone, is Accountable | 1-28-2004
| The Kelly-Kay Nexus | 1-27-2004
| Bush Backs Away from WMD Claims | 1-27-2004
| Bush Wants the Facts, Belatedly | 1-26-2004
| Who Owes Who an Explanation? | 1-25-2004
| Bush knows something we don't know | 1-24-2004
| Cheney vs Kay | 1-22-2004
| Bush is Out in the Cold | 1-20-2004
| If You're So Smart... | 1-20-2004
| The New Poll | 1-19-2004
| State of the Union - 2004 | 1-17-2004
| Bush and Scott | 1-14-2004
| The Outrage Gap | 1-10-2004
| Bush Planned Iraq Invasion Before 9/11 | 1-8-2004
| So Bush Had To Reform Medicare, Huh? | 1-7-2004
| FOUND! WMDs! | 1-7-2004
| The Old Bait and Switch, Again | 1-4-2004
| That was Then, This is Now? | 1-3-2004
| God's Blessing Him | 1-1-2004
| Bush Lies About Sex | 12-30-2003
| Lest We Forget | 12-19-2003
| 9/11 Kean Preliminaries - Administration Delay Hinders Progress | 12-18-2003
| Jose Padilla Held Hostage - Officially | 12-16-2003
| Thanksgiving Leaves a Bad Taste in the Mouths of the Troops | 12-16-2003
| The Bush Administration Repudiates International Law | 12-13-2003
| I'll Take Carni Games for $200, Alex | 12-13-2003
| We've Got 'im | 12-11-2003
| Stop The Count | 12-11-2003
| Rumsfeld using Israeli Advisors in New Offensive | 12-9-2003
| Brainiac Strikes Again | 12-7-2003
| White House Wants Kerry to Apologize for Profanity | 12-7-2003
| Bush Sells Iraq | 12-4-2003
| 9/11 In Neverland | 12-4-2003
| Excuses, Excuses, Excuses | 12-3-2003
| Good-bye, Mr. President: The Secret Resignation Letters | 11-27-2003
| Better Watch Out | 11-26-2003
| Bush Family Business II | 11-24-2003
| Bush Brings Midland to Buckingham | 11-20-2003
| Is Bush Beyond the Law? | 11-20-2003
| Mr Blair: "We stay until the job gets done." | 11-17-2003
| A Safer and More Peaceful World | 11-16-2003
| CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words Part II | 11-16-2003
| The President In His Own Words Part III | 11-16-2003
| Unable to Establish an Iraq/Al Qaeda Connection, Bush Builds One | 11-15-2003
| A Parable | 11-14-2003
| Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave... | 11-8-2003
| Bombs Over Baghdad - Again | 11-8-2003
| U.S. Closes Diplomatic Missions in Saudi Arabia | 11-6-2003
| Americans RIPPED OFF Again | 11-5-2003
| One in Seven - Flailing Support | 11-1-2003
| Bush's Other Wars | 11-1-2003
| There's Only One Issue in this next election - Abortion | 11-1-2003
| Piling On | 10-30-2003
| The Lying Spreads to Condoleezza Rice | 10-28-2003
| Two Words: Emperor's Clothes | 10-27-2003
| The 9/11 StoneWall | 10-27-2003
| 140,000 Voters in Iraq Will Vote to Rid Us Of Our Madman | 10-20-2003
| Charity Begins at Home | 10-17-2003
| Bush Looting Our Future | 10-16-2003
| Did Someone Say "Crusade" | 10-16-2003
| White House Officials Leak Bush's Order to Stop Leaks | 10-11-2003
| KISS | 10-11-2003
| Bush Administration Set to Gut Endangered Species Act! | 10-5-2003
| BUSH LEAVE HIS FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAND | 10-3-2003
| Bush - I lied - Again - So What? | 10-2-2003
| David Kay - Sorry about the Progress Leaks, I was Wrong | 10-1-2003
| Different Lies - Same Story | 9-29-2003
| Why All The Fuss | 9-27-2003
| What If? | 9-26-2003
| The Marshall Plan? | 9-24-2003
| Wouldn't Recognize the Truth if it Bit Him On His Ass | 9-22-2003
| Bush Takes His Case to FOX | 9-21-2003
| Ivins Hits Another Homer | 9-20-2003
| CNN Poll | 9-17-2003
| This Is Not A War, We Were Never Here | 9-14-2003
| Roadmap Dead - Isreal Puts out the Hit Palestinian Leadership | 9-12-2003
| The Lie was a Lie | 9-4-2003
| White House Admits Letting Bin Laden's out of the Country on 9/12 | 9-4-2003
| The Bush Defense | 9-4-2003
| Blair Lied, so Bush Lied | 9-3-2003
| Pointing Fingers at Bush | 9-3-2003
| Duped? Doped? Bush as the Victim | 9-3-2003
| Right and Left Meet in Opposition to Bush Imperialism | 9-3-2003
| The Worm Turns | 9-1-2003
| Can This Fight Be Won? | 8-26-2003
| More Lies from the White House | 8-25-2003
| US/Pakistan Agree NOT to Capture Bin Laden | 8-24-2003
| Losing the Peace - As in Afganistan, Iraq is Proving an Intractable Problem for the Bush Administration | 8-24-2003
| Bush's Other Unemployment Problem | 8-21-2003
| Shame on Bush - No Welcome mat In Oregon | 8-7-2003
| Al Gore Remarks to MoveOn.org at New York University | 8-5-2003
| More UnDiplomatic Diplomacy Towards North Korea | 8-5-2003
| Building a House of Cards | 8-1-2003
| Often-Wrong Cheney | 8-1-2003
| David Kay Leaks Progress | 7-31-2003
| Poindexter Goes Down Again | 7-30-2003
| I lied, too Bad | 7-29-2003
| As Ridiculous as it is Grotesque | 7-28-2003
| The Rumor Mill | 7-26-2003
| Bush's Consistent Failing - No Concern for the American Economy | 7-24-2003
| Tough-Guy Stance Not Working In Korea | 7-22-2003
| Hadley Did It | 7-21-2003
| No CIA Consultation on Bush WMD State of the Union Speech | 7-18-2003
| Cliff-Notes Style Reading Gets Bush D- on State of the Union Address | 7-17-2003
| Why won't this go away? Durbin Charges that WhiteHouse Pushed for Niger Uranium Claims | 7-17-2003
| CIA Officials Didn't get Copy of State of the Union Address | 7-17-2003
| Who is Robert Joseph | 7-15-2003
| Taliban is the Key to Iran | 7-15-2003
| 16 Words Just the TIP of the Iceberg | 7-14-2003
| Bush Told Tenet to Keep the Niger Claims In | 7-14-2003
| Veteran Intelligence Community Calls for Cheney''s Head | 7-13-2003
| Bush Credibility Crisis - Al Quaeda to the Rescue | 7-11-2003
| How the Land of the Free Became the Dinosaur in the Tar Pit | 7-11-2003
| The Hard Questions If Tenet Told Blair Why didn't he tell Bush | 7-10-2003
| 150,000 Soldier Security Force | 7-10-2003
| More DoubleSpeak | 7-3-2003
| BRING 'EM ON! | 7-2-2003
| The Anonymous Reuters Lie | 7-1-2003
| Iraq War is Over, but the Fighting Goes On | 7-1-2003
| What Joseph Wilson Didn't Find in Africa | 6-27-2003
| Waxman - Why did Bush Lie? | 6-27-2003
| Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq | 6-25-2003
| AP - US Didn't kill Bin Laden when they had the Chance | 6-19-2003
| Cynthia McKinney - Bush didn't know about 9/11 | 6-16-2003
| Write Your Congressman, and while you're at it, Sign the Impeachment Petition | 6-13-2003
| Gosh, D'ya Think They Might Have Lied | 6-13-2003
| Call for Impeachment Widens | 6-13-2003
| Bush Lied | 6-13-2003
| Here's The Point | 6-12-2003
| UN - No War Crimes Trials for US Soldiers | 6-11-2003
| Bush Administration Says No Probe into Faked Intelligence on Iraqi WMD | 6-11-2003
| It depends on what you mean by -HAS- George has some splainin to do. | 6-11-2003
| David Kay - it's not about the smoking gun | 6-10-2003
| Dumbing Down the War | 6-9-2003
| Damage Control and Spin | 6-2-2003
| Powell - I'm not Reading this Bullshit | 5-30-2003
| "Inalienable Rights" at the Pleasure of the Bush Administration? | 5-29-2003
| Lynch Rescue Ruse | 5-27-2003
| Read it Here First | 5-25-2003
| Israeli Intelligence Leaks Knowledge of Iraqi Weapons Moved to Lebanon before US Invasion | 5-22-2003
| Whitman Resigns Citing Bush Administration's Environmental Failures | 5-19-2003
| Excuse - who can count them? Stopping Terrorism | 5-16-2003
| International Criminal Court Preferred Venue for Tommy Franks War Crimes | 5-13-2003
| We Give Up - There're No Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq | 5-12-2003
| Will the real Paul Bremmer please stand up? | 5-9-2003
| 9/11 Inquiry Access Stalled by White House - Victims Reach out to Community for Help | 5-7-2003
| Tommy Franks and Others to be Tried for War Crimes in Belgium | 5-6-2003
| The Blade Cut Loose - Mitch Daniels Resigns | 4-26-2003
| John Bolton Warns Syria, Libya, Cuba on Weapons of Mass Destruction | 4-24-2003
| Trickle Down Tax Cut | 4-24-2003
| Oil For Food - US to Manage Iraqi Food Supply | 4-22-2003
| No International Oversight for Weapons Inspectors | 4-18-2003
| Rumsfeld - I don't think we'll find any. | 4-17-2003
| Bechtel Rumsfeld Bush | 4-16-2003
| Excuses Are like Abu Abbas | 4-14-2003
| Three Excuses - Oops, did I say Iraq, I meant Syria | 4-11-2003
| Liberation Anarchy Iraq | 4-11-2003
| so that's it, no weapons, no saddam, no liberation | 4-10-2003
| Three Diplomatic Mistakes | 4-9-2003
| Syria - the new Iraq | 4-9-2003
| Wow, that was easy - Iraq War Over | 4-6-2003
| Turn Left at Bagdad - There's Syria | 4-6-2003
| Ooops - forgot to look at the Airport | 4-5-2003
| Victory with Victory - How to Win a War without objectives. | 4-5-2003
| Excuse IV - Saddam Might Be The Next Hitler | 4-4-2003
| Bush to Rule Iraq | 4-3-2003
| Mourning the Dead | 4-3-2003
| April Glaspie - US Ambassador to Iraq, 1990 | 3-27-2003
| Mandela on Bush | 3-26-2003
| Excuse Number II - Liberating the Iraqi People | 3-25-2003
| Haliburton Awarded Massive Iraqi Oil Reconstruction Deal | 3-25-2003
| War Crimes | 3-22-2003
| Will they plant evidence? | 3-21-2003
| Why Do They Hate US? | 3-21-2003
| If they had'em, they'd use 'em? | 3-20-2003
| The Nations of the World Rally | 3-20-2003
| Washington Times: Will Bush Be Impeached for Starting a War? | 3-20-2003
| Global Dispatches | 3-19-2003
| With Thanks To Michael Moore | 3-17-2003
| Bush's St. Patrick's Day War? | 3-17-2003
| Congressman: President Misled UN, Congress, and People | 3-16-2003
| Diplomacy Does Not Equal Extortion | 3-14-2003
| The Evolution of a War Strategy | 3-13-2003
| The Bush Tragedy - The Fatal Flaw | 3-9-2003
| Bush and Christ | 3-6-2003
| TIP Press Conference | 3-5-2003
| U.S. General Jay Garner - EX Star Wars Chief Appointed Head of Iraq | 3-3-2003
| Proposed National Forest Management Act Rules Changes | 2-27-2003
| Bush - Analyzing the Rhetoric | 2-20-2003
| Riding With Bill Maher | 2-15-2003
| world to bush - NO WAR | 2-13-2003
| Military and Congress Sue Bush Over Iraqi War | 2-11-2003
| Poets United Against The War | 2-7-2003
| Colin Powell and the Smokeless Gun | 2-3-2003
| White House Defends Bush's Guard Service During War | 1-30-2003
| Bush Shortsighted and Arrogant - Mandela | 1-30-2003
| Bush Crime Family | 1-29-2003
| Bush 2003 State of the Union Address | 1-24-2003
| U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton Protecting the Iraqi Oil Fields First | 1-22-2003
| Bush Backs SUV's - More Oil for the Mile | 1-22-2003
| Borrow and Spend - No Fiscal Restraint on Iraq | 1-16-2003
| The Iraqi Charade | 1-12-2003
| McLellan Lies about Iraq | 1-5-2003
| US Developing Low Yield Nukes | 1-1-2003
| The Buck Never Stops | 12-30-2002
| Bush gets ready for an Extra 100 Billion in Spending | 12-25-2002
| Bankers running for cover in Government Debt turn to Bush for help. | 12-22-2002
| Taxpayers Gave Bush 67 Million to Steal the Election | 12-16-2002
| The $100,000,000 Man | 12-16-2002
| Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of Homeland Security Organization Chosen to lead investigation of Homeland Security | 12-13-2002
| Sabbotaging an Investigation? | 12-10-2002
| Godzilla and Mothra are watching the Henhouse | 12-4-2002
| Kissinger's Refusal | 12-4-2002
| Kissinger should be answering questions - not asking them. | 12-1-2002
| SMOKING GUN: The Evidence that May Hang G.W. Bush | 11-18-2002
| CNN Report on the Toothless Watchdog SEC | 11-12-2002
| US Military in Iraq for months, finally the press picks it up. | 11-6-2002
| American Oil Companies Meet to Divvy Up the Spoils | 11-4-2002
| George Bush - Cocaine Addict? | 10-31-2002
| William Webster - A Bush Sr. Cronie for a do-nothing SEC | 10-25-2002
| Bush AWOL - Deserter | 10-24-2002
| Sniper - GW's Shootist Diversion | 10-21-2002
| The Korean War II - Will Bush Take Them ALL OUT? | 10-14-2002
| The White House Shell Game | 10-13-2002
| World Domination IV - Inspections a Prelude to War | 10-12-2002
| National Emergency Act Continues to Grant Bush Generalized War Powers | 10-4-2002
| Klamath Falls Wildlife - Bush Breaks the LAW again. | 9-29-2002
| The President's Real Goal in Iraq | 9-27-2002
| Bush' Campaign Money Blitz | 9-25-2002
| Bush Preemption Strategy a Recipe for Disaster | 9-25-2002
| American Military Action on Iraqi Soil Increases in Last 2 Weeks | 9-25-2002
| MASSACHUSETTS COURT CASE HINTS AT MAJOR BREAK IN CIA DRUG STORY | 9-24-2002
| FBI Foreknowledge - But The Buck Stops Where? | 9-21-2002
| Reuters Reports CIA Foreknwoledge of Sept. 11 Attacks | 9-20-2002
| World Domination III - No Support from UN? | 9-20-2002
| George Bush Prevented FBI Action Leading to 9-11 Attacks | 9-20-2002
| Jose Padilla - American Citizen Taken Hostage by US Government | 9-20-2002
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