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Bob Brinker	Choux	11/21/04
Bob Brinker is a well-respected author and talk radio host of "Money Talk". He is *not* a partisan. I listened to his show today for the first time in a long time, and what he was talking about really scared me. He said that the spending the Federal Govt is doing, the proposition to make tax cuts permanent...he likened to a locomotive out of control...that there is no one in Washington who will attempt to control all this excess spending in every direction. How do you feel about the ever-increasing national debt with no checks on it in sight? Isn't this reckless? (Kerry was going to increase taxes)Concerned.
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tomder55		11/22/04
I have listened to Brinker many times. His concern is the out of control spending .He is right to be concerned.Saturday Congress passed a $388 billion spending bill that was described as "lean "and" austere".The projects funded in the bill included: $335,000 to protect sunflowers in North Dakota from blackbird damage. $225,000 to study catfish genomes at Alabama's Auburn University. $2 million for the government to try buying back the former presidential yacht Sequoia, which was sold three decades ago. His position on the tax cuts ,at least during the election was that he doesn't buy the-tax-cut-for-the-rich rhetoric, but he did make a good case that the tax cut could have been better directed toward those with a higher propensity to spend.His point on Kerry's proposal to roll back the tax cuts was that by increasing taxes at the upper tax brackets less money is available for investment and thus the economy grows at a slower rate.

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