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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: lurqer who wrote (42420)4/12/2004 5:20:27 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
Nice try at a dodge. But that's what it was.

Have you looked at the numbers as to what it would cost to pay for SS as it was? Where did you intend to get the money?

Or is your plan to have the old folks beat it out of the young ones? The reason that SS grew to be more expensive was that the older people vote more. Do you think that would continue forever and the younger ones would never catch on?

SS is a Ponzi scheme. A fraud. If you or I set it up, we'd go to jail. SS was a fraud from the day it started.

And, with the addition of Medicare and now prescription drug coverage, SS has been made more expensive yet. One of the things I hold against GWB was pushing and then signing that drug coverage law. You must have seen the estimates of its real costs and the scandals that they were not disclosed initially. GWB was playing for votes in the '04 election rather than doing his job. With that and the unamnesty amnesty, his desperate pandering and clutching for votes reminds me of Gray Davis once he realized the recall was really, REALLY serious (although how he could ever have thought otherwise is beyond me).

You don't like it here? Hey, there are flights to Europe and the People's Paradises every day. No one will stop you. Don't let the doorknob hit you in the butt.
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