AlGore Junior caught lying again:
Change Of Tune
In an interview with the Washington Post recently Gore also denied the Clinton administration had ever proposed partially privatizing Social Security, which it did twice before dropping the idea last month citing lack of support in Congress.
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Tuesday May 16 7:53 PM ET
Bush Uses Videotape to Hit Gore on Social Security
By Patricia Wilson
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush (news - web sites) used a White House videotape on Tuesday to illustrate Democratic rival Al Gore (news - web sites)'s flip-flop on partial privatization of the Social Security system.
The tape, shot at a Jan. 27, 1999, briefing on the future of the retirement program, shows the vice president voicing strong support for a reform Bush proposed on Monday -- investing some of the 12.4 percent payroll taxes paid by employees and workers in the stock market.
``During this whole national discussion, one of the single most important, salient facts that jumped out at everybody is that, over any 10-year period in American history, returns on equities are just significantly higher than these other returns,'' Gore says.
``And in order to capture some part of that economic advantage, surely there is a way to solve these problems. And the people who have spent time on it are just totally convinced that it can be solved pretty easily,'' he adds....
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