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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: jlallen who wrote (6123)8/24/2001 6:44:22 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
There IS no trust fund and each party has been responsible for creating public confusion over the matter. The current demolib pinhead mantra that Bush is raiding the sacred "Trust Fund" is total bullshirt....

I might agree with you here, if we can agree on a little more detail....

There actually is a trust fund, there always has been and it's in the form of Treasure bills. Whether those have value or not might be debated by some, but I don't think that Greenspan and the rest of the Fed would claim that T-Bills are worthless. So you can take that argument up with them.

I'd actually agree with G.W. [who took this position for around 1 day] that it's an accounting game to hide the actually deficit and has little to do with the actual trust fund one way or another. The Reps started the rhetoric game of calling this accounting trick spending the SS Trust fund. Then they starte the "lock box" rhetoric game....they won that game with the public and now that the Administration wants to hide the deficit again...they want to abandon the "lock box" rhetoric game. So now the Dems want to play the "lock box" rhetoric game and the Reps are ticked off that they can't play the accounting trick rhetoric game.

Who knows what Bush's position [game] will be tomorrow, he flips like a trout you just pulled out of the water?

BTW....I haven't been able to read much news the last several weeks....what's the Administration's current position on releasing the details of the meetings that Cheney had with the energy companies...first they wouldn't, then they would release everything, then they wouldn't....what's the latest position?

jttmab
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