Epstein Secrets

billion reconstruction effort was largely a failure with most of that money spent on security or lost to waste and fraud, it said. Former President George W. Bush's administration cited its belief that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's government held weapons of mass destruction to justify the decision to go to wa

a dangerous dictator and his supposed stocks of weapons of mass destruction. It was also to create a functioning democracy and thereby inspire what Bush called a "global democracy revolution." The effort was supposed to be cheap -- to require few troops and even less time. Instead, it cost the Unite

ber 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan rec

T's REMEMBER: Ten years ago when President George W. Bush announced the invasion into Iraq in March 2

$3.2 trillion in new tax revenue. The tax hike is already in effect. Ryan (R-Wis.) merely adopts new revenue projections laid out by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in the wake of a year-end deal to raise rates on income over $450,000. But the impact on his budget is huge. The changes that Ryan is proposing for

zona, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. When you consider that Mitt Romney won 27 percent of the Hispanic vote nationally (13 points worse than George W. Bush did eight years earlier), you begin to see that if things continue in their current direction, Republicans will be hard-pressed to be competitive in

ess, those numbers are likely to change. New Mexico provides a recent example. In 1994, New Mexico became a majority-minority population. And yet, Bush was able to be extremely competitive in the state in 2000 (he lost the state to Al Gore by about 350 votes) and 2004 (he won by a point over John Ke

nic vote nationally (13 points worse than George W. Bush did eight years earlier), you begin to see t

surplus and when he left office the Obama Administration inherited a $1.1 trillion deficit as well as an economy in free-fall. On March 5, 2015 the Congressional Budget Office announced that President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget proposal would shrink U.S. deficits by $1.232 trillion over to years compared to those ex

tes employing economic and military power to accelerate the inevitable expansion of democracy. President Bill Clinton's globalization and President George W. Bush's doctrine of preemption are two sides of the same coin. This latter school of thought gave Americans Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo during the 1990s a

the president's interminable "seminar" on Afghanistan policy.) This problem extended beyond the White House. After the imperial presidency of the Bush era, there was something more like parliamentary government in the first two years of Obama's administration. The president proposed; Congress disp

ill Clinton's globalization and President George W. Bush's doctrine of preemption are two sides of t

supposed to fall in relation to GDP from 67 percent in 2010 to less than 66 percent this year. If only. By the end of this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), it will reach 70 percent of GDP. These figures significantly understate the debt problem, however. The ratio that matters is debt to revenue

Mitt Romney has clearly signaled that he will run as a stalwart conservative ignoring the successful strategies of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush of campaigning as far to the right as possible during the Republican primaries and then sprint back to the middle as quickly as possible the moment

es of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush of campaigning as far to the right as possible du

egies of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush of campaigning as far to the right as possib

st plan, you could buy a policy from a private insurer or buy Medicare from the government — you pay the difference out of pocket. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the average Medicare recipient would pay an extra $6,500 a year. And having just spent four days in the ICU at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles

l that increase the deficit outside the budget window. It was used by President George W. Bush to pass significant tax cut legislation in 2001 (the “Bush tax cuts”) and is expected to be considered next year for tax reform. Note that the Bush tax cuts were originally sunsetted at the end of ten years d

with the past several years under divided government, a main issue will be how to address the Budget Control Act sequester for FY 2018. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cap on discretionary budget authority originally established by the Budget Control Act is set at $1.156 billion in 2018, though it will be reduc

rafficking organization (DTO) in Raleigh County, W. Va. to distribute heroin." New Mexico Police Ann

offices in Kentucky and in Washington, DC, to demand an end to 'his meanness, misery and mayhem'; 3:30 PM * CBO releases long-term budget outlook — Congressional Budget Office releases 'The 2020 Long-Term Budget Outlook', providing projections of what federal spending, revenues, deficits, and debt would be for the next 30