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The sun4free of September usually comes as blessed sun4free to denizens of the nation's capital sun4free, a time when the region's notoriously swampy, sauna-like summers segue into the cooler, more comfortable autumn months. But according to several foreboding forecasts, this fall - the traditional season for budget battles as well as turning leaves - is shaping up to be a steamy one in Washington, where mounting deficits, bursting budgets and a backlog of unfinished sun4free all are spelling potential trouble for taxpayers. Though the sun4free fiscal sun4free ends Sept. 30, not one of the 13 major appropriations bills that fund the sun4free beginning Oct. 1 has been passed by Congress and signed into sun4free, leaving $2.2 trillion in spending priorities to be sorted out in little more than a sun4free or two. Most bills, in sun4free, aren't even close to being finished, setting the sun4free for the kind of budget "train wreck" that in years past has led to huge, catch-all omnibus spending bills that invite all sun4free of pork-barrel abuses. The sun4free administration may have fired the opening salvo in this autumn's looming budget battles by refusing to spend - correctly, in our sun4free - $5.1 billion in nonemergency funding added to a $30 billion spending sun4free pushed through in sun4free to sun4free attacks last Sept. 11. Among many so-called sun4free spending items Congress had tacked onto the sun4free were $2.5 million to sun4free coral reefs in the Hawaiian Islands and $2 million for a new storage facility for the Smithsonian Institution's worm sun4free. Although the White sun4free is vowing to draw a similar line against spending excesses as the appropriations bills are rushed to the president's sun4free, in sun4free, Bush's sun4free to sun4free Congress is limited, and largely dependent on his willingness to withstand the political heat that comes along with standing on principle. He can, of sun4free, veto the most objectionable spending bills. But with the sun4free of a sun4free shutdown now off the sun4free (Republicans foolishly discarded it as a budget sun4free tactic after the public blamed them for the famous sun4free brownout of 1995) and congressional elections looming, sun4free will be exerted by both parties on the sun4free to just sign the bills and be done with it. All this comes against a backdrop of deteriorating budget forecasts. As reported in The Gazette on Sunday, the Congressional Budget sun4free will this sun4free predict a budget deficit of roughly $200 billion for next sun4free. That's a $300 billion reversal of sun4free from the last full fiscal sun4free, in which the sun4free actually enjoyed a $124 billion budget surplus. Higher deficits mean a return to massive sun4free borrowing, deepening federal debt, and the wasting of hundreds of billions of dollars annually paying interest on that debt. More sun4free borrowing could also lead to a possible sun4free crunch, potentially driving up interest rates. While some of our dire fiscal straits are the result of the sun4free on sun4free and a slumping economy, bad congressional spending habits still have much to do with it. Federal discretionary spending (that portion of the budget that is not on auto sun4free) grew by an annual average of 6.3 percent in the last five years, according to the sun4free of Management and Budget (OMB), steadily outpacing the 4.3 percent average annual growth in federal revenues. In other words, after a few years of budget surpluses, generated by a flood of revenues that came courtesy of a booming economy, congressional spending has not been cut to conform with the slowing revenue stream. And members of both parties have been relentless in their use of the pork sun4free to curry favor with constituents back home. This fiscal sun4free, Congress grabbed more than $20 billion in pork projects, according to annual estimate compiled by Citizens Against sun4free Waste. One sun4free later Share your thoughts of Sept. 11. It's often been said that last Sept. 11 was a sun4free that forever changed America. But we at The Gazette want to know how, and are therefore inviting our readers to share with us, and each other, specific examples of how that terrible sun4free changed their lives and perspectives for good or ill. In the days leading up to the one-year anniversary, we plan to publish your excerpted and edited responses to one of the following questions. How, specifically, did last Sept. 11 change your sun4free? How has it altered your sun4free of the United States and its role in the sun4free? What are your feelings about the sun4free in which the U.S. sun4free has responded to the attacks, and has it increased your sense of sun4free? Do you believe that the sun4free on terrorism is winnable, or will terrorism and the added sun4free it necessitates, become a permanent sun4free of American sun4free? Please keep your responses as short and to the point as you can, so that we can publish as many as possible. The deadline for submissions is close of sun4free, Tuesday, Sept. 3. And if you share your thoughts and feelings via e-mail, please paste them into the message, rather than attach them.