Word: heck
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...Microsoft breakup? Not yet. Middle East peace? Not hardly. The Oxygen network? Jack Welch's retirement? Heck, Jesus was supposed to show...
...celebrity. He wanted to be free. When reporters came around asking questions about his success, he would reply, "Have I had enormous success? Do you think so?" He hated to talk about it. In 1967, he hotly told a writer, "Life magazine said I was a multimillionaire - heck, no cartoonist can become a millionaire...
...been Ronald Reagan's Middle East envoy and Nixon's ambassador to NATO, and he studied deficit reduction under Bush's father. Heck, Cheney was Rumsfeld's deputy when Rumsfeld was Ford's chief of staff...
...projection expects government spending to stay level, which it won't, and for certain existing tax credits to be allowed to expire, which they won't. (And a real, multi-year recession would of course make those surpluses disappear very fast.) But an extra $1.4 trillion is a heck of a lot of breathing room, and Democrats will be hard-pressed to argue that even Bush's now-enlarged proposal (it's $1.6 trillion from 2002-2011 instead of the old $1.3 trillion from 2002-2010) will break the fiscal bank...
...that if the budget gets tight a few years hence, a tax cut is a lot easier to ditch than an entitlement. And with the CBO's accountants drowning in black ink, taking the money off the table is a hedge against the bloated budgets of the future. Heck, it might even perk up the markets a little bit in the meantime...