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10.08.06, 03:11
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    • zbalansowany a ekonomia w rozkwicie 10.08.06, 03:13
      Cabinet expected to okay NIS 2.8b in budget cuts to fund war

      By Moti Bassok, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters

      The cabinet will be asked to vote Sunday on an NIS 2.8 billion cut to the 2006
      state budget to fund the war in Lebanon.

      A special NIS 2 billion allocation will be transfered to the Defense Ministry
      in addition to funds that will be disbursed to local governments and emergency
      services in the North for war-related costs. Finance Minister Abraham Hirchson
      cited Israel Defense Forces sources that the war is costing NIS 7 billion thus
      far.

      Hirchson presented last night the treasury's program for redistributing funds
      to pay for the war. He reiterated previous promises not to raise taxes or
      impose special fees to cover increased military costs. The finance minister
      stressed the importance of fiscal responsibility in the face of the country's
      major economic burden resulting from the war.




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      "This war that was brought upon us has an economic cost, but we cannot allow it
      to come at the expense of the economy's stability," Hirchson said.

      The NIS 2.8 billion budget cut will be affected through a 9 percent, across-the-
      board cut to all government ministries with the exception of health, welfare,
      and local authority budgets, and part of the internal security budget, leading
      to savings of NIS 1.8 billion. In addition, the treasury will freeze NIS 1
      billion in allocations to underperforming budget line items.

      NIS 600 million of the amount will be held in reserve if there are needs for
      additional spending due to the unforeseen extension of the war. Hirchson
      promised that no additional cuts will be made to the 2006 budget even if the
      war is prolonged.

      In addition to the budget reductions, the treasury will transfer NIS 2 billion
      to the Defense Ministry on Sunday after the cabinet and Knesset Finance
      Committee approve the plan, as is expected. Allocations will also be made to
      local authorities and firefighting services in the North to cover immediate,
      war-related expenses.

      The treasury plan includes a NIS 600 million cut in non-war related spending
      for the Defense Ministry, which means that the net supplement to the military
      budget will be NIS 1.4 billion. The decision to include the Education Ministry
      in the list of ministries participating in the across-the-board cuts was not
      made lightly by the treasury, which intends to examine with ministry officials
      over the next few days implications of the cut to the education system.

      Hirchson said that Israel has been pursuing a just war for the past month. He
      said he has told the military leaders that as far as he is concerned, they will
      incur no economic problem as a result of the war.

      The Finance Ministry stressed that the treasury is monitoring both the
      microeconomic and macroeconomic implications of the war on a daily basis. "No
      foreign investor has left Israel due to the war," Hirchson said. "The economy
      is strong."

      Last week, the Bank of Israel estimated the weekly loss to the economy of up to
      NIS 1.08 billion, and a GDP cut of 0.7 to 0.9 percentage points.



      • zbalansowany Teraz czas na wykopywanie hutzpiarzy 10.08.06, 03:20

        z polityki:


        Lieberman loss offers signs of angry U.S. electorate

        By The Associated Press

        Democrats said U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's defeat in a party vote underscored
        anger over the Iraq war but the Bush administration countered that it exposed
        the party's weakness on national security.

        The White House weighed in on Wednesday with unusual vigor on a Democratic
        primary after Lieberman, a three-term senator and vice presidential nominee in
        2000, was brought down by voter anger for his support of the war and what his
        challenger called excessive coziness with President George W. Bush.

        Winner Ned Lamont had cast Tuesday's race with Lieberman for the Democratic
        Senate nomination as a referendum on the 3-year-old Iraq war. Lieberman filed
        petitions on Wednesday to run as an independent in the November election.




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        Echoing a frequent Republican theme, Vice President Dick Cheney said Democrats
        were purging Lieberman from the party over his outspoken advocacy for the war
        and displaying their "pre-9/11 mindset" and inability to protect Americans.

        He said Lieberman's defeat showed "the direction the party appears to be
        heading when they in fact purge a man like Joe Lieberman, who just six years
        ago was their nominee for vice president," over his support for the war on
        terrorism.

        "What is particularly disturbing about it is from the standpoint of our
        adversaries ... They clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately
        they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay
        in the fight and complete the task," Cheney said in a conference call with
        reporters while on vacation in Wyoming.

        Months of discontent over the war have pushed Bush's approval ratings down and
        threatened his Republican Party's control of Congress in November. A CNN poll
        released on Wednesday showed 60 percent of Americans oppose the war in Iraq,
        and a majority would support a partial withdrawal of troops by year's end.

        The White House said the vote did not reflect American views on Bush's
        policies, but rather how the Democratic Party dealt with the Iraq war and other
        issues of national security.

        "I know a lot of people have tried to make this a referendum on the president.
        I would flip it. I think instead it's a defining moment for the Democratic
        Party whose national leaders now have made it clear that if you disagree with
        the extreme left in their party, they're going to come after you," White House
        spokesman Tony Snow said.

        Democrats said the result showed voters had grown tired of Bush and the war,
        and said the high turnout in Connecticut showed the party's rank and file was
        energized and eager to head to the polls in November.

        "Voters are angry about the course we are on, and all Republicans are offering
        is stay the course," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the House
        Democratic campaign committee.

        Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, said the
        Lamont-Lieberman clash would keep the Democratic debate over the war prominent
        through the fall and highlight the image of a party fractured by divisions.

        "That's not really the image that Democrats want to send right now," he said.

        Lieberman will have to wait a few weeks to resume his tussle with Lamont and
        with Republican Alan Schlesinger, a former state legislator. The signatures on
        the petitions he turned in must be validated by town clerks in Connecticut,
        which could take two weeks.

        But Lieberman said he was anxious to renew the debate, calling Lamont an
        example of the polarizing forces that voters were tired of in Washington. His
        victory was fueled in part by grass-roots and Internet activists adamantly
        opposed to the Iraq war.

        "I don't want these folks to take over my party or American politics,"
        Lieberman said on CNN on Wednesday.




        • coprawda chyba czas bedzie poswiecic Izrael 10.08.06, 03:35
          • krystian71 Budynek Agory tez juz zostal poswiecony 10.08.06, 10:09
            przez x.Czajkowskiego,ale to sie chyba nie liczy ,przydaloby sie jeszcze raz.
            Jak na Israel, mysle,ze x.agent Czajkowski bylby wsam raz
      • krystian71 Re: a ekonomia w rozkwicie 10.08.06, 10:11
        Finance Minister Abraham Hirchson

        he,he przez chwile przezylem szok."kurka wodna, jeszcze jeden minister
        finansow - Zyd" ,zanim sie zreflektowalem,ze czytam tym razem o Israelu.
        >
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