AlterNet: Unraveling Deceit: "there was Bush's shifty claim that his first round of tax cuts would wipe out income taxes for a single-mom waitress making $22,000 and help her reach the middle class. When the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche analyzed Bush's plan, it found that it would do no such thing, for at that level of income she already owed no income taxes.
There was also the time the EPA compiled a climate report for the UN and noted that the United States would experience dramatic environmental changes due to global warming: heat waves, water shortages, pest outbreaks, loss of wetlands and coastland. Bush dismissed the 268-page report, remarking, 'I read the report put out by the bureaucracy.' Days later, though, press secretary Ari Fleischer admitted Bush had not read the report. (What a surprise.)
Just the other day – and I couldn't get this into the book – Bush visited elementary schools to promote his education policies and claimed that his proposed 2004 education budget 'boosts' spending for elementary and secondary education. According to Education Department figures, he actually is requesting nearly a billion-dollar cut. "
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