Cheney Inc. Expanding Faster Than the Economy

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/992265.asp?0cl=c1

The White House had yet another piece of good economic news to trumpet today, announcing that Vice President Dick Cheney had expanded even faster than the U.S. economy in the quarter just ended. “Our economic policy, including our program of tax cuts for the highest-income brackets, has resulted in the most dramatic expansion of a Vice President in U.S. history,” President George W. Bush said.

WHILE BUSH ACKNOWLEDGED that many Americans had yet to reap positive benefits from Cheney’s explosive growth, he said that it was only a matter of time before the Vice President’s surging wealth trickled down to the rest of the country.

According to figures released by the White House, Cheney expanded at a torrid 11.2 percent rate in the last quarter, creating over 20,000 new jobs, most of them for Halliburton , the oil and gas company where Cheney had served as chairman and CEO before running for vice president.

While economists expressed amazement at Cheney’s unprecedented growth rate, some doubted that his dramatic expansion could be sustained.

But Charles Donner, chief economist for Credit Suisse First Boston, predicted that the next quarter will also be strong for the vice president, with the completion of an oil and gas pipeline leading directly from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan directly into Cheney’s super-secret underground lair. “With the completion of that pipeline, Dick Cheney will become the second-largest economy in the world,” Mr. Donner said.

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