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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: mark silvers who wrote (2596)7/30/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Thats fine but fwiw I wish people would quit using this "elderly person" soundbyte in this context. First off, the elderly as a demographic group are some of the wealthiest people in the country. Sure there are some poor elderly and they need to be taken care of, but there are more poor children and they are equally needy, we as a society do much less for them. I am for supporting the poor in a better capacity than we do now, but it has to be all poor, not just the elderly poor.

On a different topic I think "technology improvements" is a bit misleading too, when used in the context of how the economy is allowed to purr along with no inflation. I think Greenspan has said that... there is an additional factor of outsourced cheap labor particularly in the technology labor markets that allows us to produce for less, then of course all the benefits are realized in the US (mostly).
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