In Waco, texas Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush; President Vincente Fox, of Mexico; and Prime Minister Paul Martin, of the Dominion of Canada sign the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America establishing a timetable for negotiations to merge their three nations into the North American Union.

       [restored 1/13/2024]

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the Ostensibly pro State’s Rights Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush signs the Welfare Reform Extension Act of 2005, reauthorizing the block grant program for another three months.

       NOTE: The 2004 Republican Party Platform contained the following passages:

• Our leaders must make sure that the growth of the federal government remains in check.
• We must maintain our commitment to free and fair trade, lower taxes, limited regulation, and a limited, efficient government that keeps up with the new realities of a changing world.
• We endorse creating a commission to evaluate discretionary spending on federal agencies and programs to ensure that taxpayer Funds are being used for the best, most efficient purposes. Such a commission would determine whether certain programs are duplicative, wasteful or inefficient, outdated or irrelevant, or failed. It would recommend to Congress programs that could be terminated, moved, or restructured to make the government more efficient.

       [restored 1/13/2024] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.