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Hoeffel Says Specter Support for Bush-Cheney Budgets has Hurt
Pennsylvania Communities, Increased Debt  Location: Unknown
"Since President Bush took office in January 2001, a projected
ten-year surplus of $5.6 trillion has turned into a projected
deficit of $2.9 trillion," Hoeffel said. "But instead of
investing in public schools, job training, health care, veterans
benefits, and all the other investments in our people and
quality of life, George Bush and Arlen Specter want to keep
giving new tax breaks to millionaires."  "The Bush-Cheney White
House and Republican supporters like Arlen Specter have made a
short-sighted political calculation that the real cost of their
deficit is so theoretical that average Americans won't notice
until it's too late. But I've held dozens of economic forums
across our state, and I know the cost of those borrow-and-spend,
unbalanced budgets aren't theoretical and off somewhere in the
future for local communities and