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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:33 AM
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Honest question, please try to give an honest answer
Since Bush has been pResident, has any numbers this administration published ever even been close to the truth?

I have been trying to do some research & I have yet to find anything that didn't have to be changed or said numbers were published by accident & released the new nubmbers after we caught them with their hand in the cookie jar.
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:37 AM
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1. Not to my knowledge
Everything coming out of the Chimp adminsistration has been politicized and under or over stated. There is nothing truthful about the information coming from Whitehouse sources. This has gotten to be so far out of line that bush is synomonous with liar. Same with Condasleeza, the VP, et al.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:42 AM
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2. His age, that's about it
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:42 AM
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3. No, they haven't
It is called Enron accounting, and apparently Bushco is the master of it. They release hopped up numbers to look good for the press and Wall St., and then weeks, months later release "revised" numbers, usually buried in a back page, if published at all. And while these revised numbers are closer to the truth than the original release, they are still being massaged. Go look at the unemployment numbers. While the official numbers we all see is hovering in the five percent range, alternative, more realistic numbers put out by the DOL shows actual unemployment in the nine percent range.

This has been a common occurence for decades now, but Bushco is elevating it to a high artform.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:42 AM
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4. i tell people this often. bushco is so blatant
i simply ask that question, instead of trying to list them all. now i am just to, every single number i have heard has been false.

now, do i need to go thru 'em

why, oh why,..................doesnt evberyone just fuckin laugh in bushco face with each number and a ya right.

did you see 9/11 commission after saying mission accomplish, read the report, is now leaking info to add too. ha,.........did you know admin really did get laden people out before commercial, but then conclusion, bushco said they didnt talk to saudi, so they arent a part.

assholes all of them

then again, was just sittin listening to the news. and i heard them say like three yelling clear, the ugly admins. this is getting to simple to see the corruption and absolute wrong of bushco. and still people clean on to the 2000 addition of bush
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:47 AM
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6. I agree Bushco is so blatant
I was just trying to see if anything they ever said was even close to the Truth.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:43 AM
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5. none that I recall
from economic reports to casualty reports, their initial numbers always serve their political agenda and then must be revised later.
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