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Increased demand for shanties offers opportunity!:

According to the Census Bureau, the number of people living below the official poverty line grew by 1.3 million in 2003, to 35.9 million. That's nearly 4.3 million more poor persons than when Bush took office, an increase of nearly 14%. - FactCheck.org

Just reg'lar mainstreet bid'ness folk:

Vice President Cheney and his wife Lynne qualify as "small business owners" for 2003 because 3.5% of the total income reported on their tax returns was business income from Mrs. Cheney's consulting business. She reported $44,580 in business income on Schedule C, nearly all of it from fees paid to her as a director of the Reader's Digest . But giving the Cheneys a tax cut didn't stimulate any hiring; she reported zero employees. - FactCheck.org

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UPDATE How much wood would a Bush upchuck if a Bush could upchuck wood?—Lambert, inspired by an alert reader from Eschaton.