Chances slim for Bush's proposed 'opportunity zones'

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/112945542110061.xml&coll=2

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Washington - ...

More than a year later, however, Bush's campaign promise has gone nowhere. Politicians, scholars and interest groups that generally follow such proposals barely recall it, and administration spokesmen seem at a loss to account for it...

Meanwhile, a new concept of opportunity zones has emerged. After Hurricane Katrina, Bush proposed creating a Gulf Opportunity Zone that would qualify for about $2 billion in tax breaks. That idea has gotten plenty of attention on Capitol Hill lately...

Some say they suspect Bush was trying to attract votes in industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania that were key battlegrounds in the 2004 election. With the election over, they say, Bush's tax agenda is more likely to focus on getting Congress to extend income tax cuts enacted during his first term than to adopt new tax cuts targeted to struggling communities...

Katz, who worked on empowerment zones for the Clinton administration, said such programs don't seem to help small businesses much because applying for federal tax incentives requires a larger, more sophisticated staff than many businesses have. The programs also seem more likely to shift jobs from one part of town to another than to encourage companies to make new investments, he said...

[ladjf]

1. One of Bush's main tactics is to make promises and then simply

never do a thing about them. Do you recall the 14 billion that he promised for AIDS to Africa? Nothing. In fact, he has reduced the amount that was already being sent. Remember when he spoke in the South about building homes for poor families? Nothing.

He has made some bold promises about rebuilding the Gulf Coast. He will back out of most of them. The man is a "snake oil" salesman.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Ur saying ur Pretzeldent LIES???? - The rest of the world will be SHOCKED!

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NOT

[sofa king]

3. The AIDS money for Africa wasn't delivered?

I've never heard that before. Can you throw me a link or something?

[Cha]

4. Did you think it would

be? I don't have a link..I just know these con men and women don't have any qualms about promising shit and lying to keep the world off their collective back.

Someday, somebody should write a book about all the promises, bush, condi, cheney, powell, rove, et al, made..and all the lies that were told via the m$m.

http://www.bushlies.com

David Corn has but he'll have to do a sequel..

[ladjf]

5. I find numerous times when Bush promises 15 billion to

Africa for AIDS assistance. I can find nowhere that the actual money as been appropriated and sent.

The following article is a synopsis of Bush and the AIDS money.

http://www.actupny.org/reports/bushaidsspeech.html

Bush tells so many lies that one would need to start a database in order to keep up. Personally, I have a case of "fraud fatigue".

[OKthatsIT]

6. He didnt even give pregnant African women drugs he promised

[ladjf]

7. Exactly. The administration actually cut back on the original

amount that was already appropriated.