Washington Affairs

28 July 2003


Bush's Tax Credit Under Pays Families
For about 25 million American parents, the check is, or will soon be, in the mail courtesy of the United States Treasury. Around $400 per child will be "returned" as part of President Bush's latest unnecessary tax cut as the child tax credit is raised to $1,000 from $600. Those couples making more than $110,000, of singles making more than $75,000, or those making less than around $25,000 will get lesser amounts. Still, it isn't the size of the bribe that is important, but rather the importance is in the fact that the bribe is being offered. Click here to read more.

Councilman Davis Killed at City Hall
Wednesday's commute home for many New Yorkers was more aggravation than usual since the police had closed a few bridges and subway stations after the murder of a city councilman in the council chamber. Nervous as New York has become, the immediate worry was a new style of terror had come to town. When it was realized that the gunman was a lone nut, everyone relaxed, and proved just how insane they are. Click here for more.

PFC Lynch Comes Home, Not a Heroine
Pfc. Jessica Lynch returned to her hometown of Palestine, West Virginia, last week. The former prisoner-of-war has been hailed as a heroine by much of the American media. The Pentagon achieved a huge success in getting that fiction swallowed. Private Lynch was never the protagonist in her own story, rather she has become a necessary fiction. Click here to read on.