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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Today's Nuze: Today's Nuze: July 15, 2003
By Neal Boortz
| Today's Nuze: July 15, 2003 | ||
YES, I KNOW... Nealz Nuze has been some what sparse of late. It comes down to this; do I want to write program note or my book. Lately the book has been winning. THE CHALLENGE STANDS ... AND THE IDIOCY CONTINUES It's now been over a week since I challenged the listeners to call and cite just one lie that George Bush has told. Remember, though, that a lie that is a statement known by the person making that statement to be untrue at the time the statement was made. Leftists know that their icon, Bill Clinton, was a liar of pathological dimensions. Their obsession with tagging George Bush serves to salve the guilt liberals feel for their beatification of Clinton. Meanwhile .. back to those insignificant 16 words in Bush's State of the Union speech. Even critics now admit that it wasn't a lie. IT'S ALL ABOUT FOOTBALL, ISN'T IT? A petition with about 60,000 signatures will be presented to the Georgia Board of Regents today. The petition calls for the removal of University of Georgia president Michael Adams. Why do these people want Adams removed? Is it because of some academic scandal? Is Georgia's reputation as an institution of higher learning suffering? Is there some evidence of misconduct in any of the various colleges that make up this university? As a matter of fact ... no. These 60,000 people want Adams removed because he didn't extend the contract of Georgia's athletic director. It's all about football. Nothing else matters. Classes are held at the University of Georgia just to give students something to do between football games. MEASURING THE DEFICIT You are going to hear today that we've set a record for federal budget deficits. The figure is around $400 billion dollars. Hey, that's a lot, but it's not a record. It's not even "almost" a record. When you are considering a deficit the critical measure is not the dollar amount. The severity of a deficit is measured by percentages; more particularly, the percentage of your total economy. In the past the United States has suffered under deficits equal to 6% of the GDP, and more. This deficit will be just under 4% of the GDP. This is NOT a record, no matter how hard the press tries to make it so. Look at it this way. Let's say that your family spends $5,000 more than it makes in 2003. Is that bad? If you only make $25,000 year, it's bad. To eliminate your deficit you have to cut your spending by 20%. But what if your total income is $500,000? Then you only have to cut your spending by 1%. No big deal. Critics will try to put this deficit in the worst possible light. They'll cite only the dollar amount, not the percentage of the GDP. If our education system in this country were worth a damn people would see through this "record deficit" nonsense. But, then, if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their butts every time they jumped. Now .. having said this, let's repeat some points from yesterday. Federal spending is increasing under George Bush at a rate that makes Clinton look like a miser. Bush is a big part of this spending with his education bill and other big-government spending measures. He has yet to veto one single spending bill, and is now promoting one of the most expensive spending programs we've seen in decades; the free drugs for old folks program. TIME FOR ANOTHER WAKE UP CALL? The most recent Gallup Poll shows that only 9% of Americans rank terrorism as the number one problem facing this country. At this very moment Islamic terrorists are trying to figure out how to murder more American citizens, and only 9% of those potential targets cite that as their top concern. This is either a tremendous vote of confidence for our government, or a further indication of the dumbing-down of the American people. STICK TO HURRICANES Pat Robertson is praying for God to remove three Justices from the U.S. Supreme Court. Robertson is mightily upset that the Supreme Court has taken law enforcement out of the bedrooms of America. Though Robertson doesn't say just how God should remove these three Justices, we do not here that all three have lifetime appointments to serve. Do the math. Now ... just imagine what zealots like Pat Robertson would do if he could get his hands on the government's exclusive franchise on the use of force to accomplish goals. Remember now ... this segment of Nealz Nuze constitutes "Christian bashing." I know because I'll get 50 e-mails today telling me so. GOOD NEWS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting this morning that the Georgia Lottery posted a record $2.6 billion in sales over the last 12 months. This is a good thing. Lotteries are a tax on stupidity. Many, if not most of the people playing the lottery probably pay neither state nor federal income taxes. The achievers of Georgia wish to thank these players for helping to send our children to college. READING ASSIGNMENTS Somewhere, probably in Iraq, Saddam Hussein is gloating. He can only be gratified by the feeding frenzy of recriminations, second-guessing and political power-plays that are currently assailing his nemeses: President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030714-092728-6988r.htm Monday's Best of the Web. http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003745 Yesterday I told you that the Nevada Supreme Court had essentially set aside the Nevada Constitution and "ordered" a tax increase. Here's a Wall Street Journal editorial on the subject. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003748 A teen driver drives with a suspended license. She has four teenagers in the back seat. None of them are wearing seat belts. She speeds. She loses control. Four teenagers are dead. The drivers gets ... .. community service. http://www.cleveland.com/ohio/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1058261616122360.xml Any aid from the U.S. to Liberia will be limited. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030714-113933-6686r.htm Wall Street is showing its greatest growth since 1999. Things are looking better. Get with the program. http://www.washtimes.com/business/20030714-092729-6599r.htm Those Democrats who didn't show up at the NAACP meeting in Miami? Now, according to Kweisi Mfume, they're "persona non grata" in the black community. Yeah, right. Like they're going to vote for Republicans. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030714-113947-9592r.htm |
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