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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (103568)5/9/2005 7:04:28 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Social Security isn't actually bankrupt, Oral. It needs some tinkering around the edges, with slightly higher starting ages for benefits, and a higher cutoff wage for contributions, etc. The sooner we do this, the better, of course. Bush's plan was just a gift to the financial services industry, his big campaign contribution buddies. It was another cynical privatization ploy, because that is Bush's basic ideology. And I heard on the news this morning that he robbed the Social Security trust fund to finance his adventuring abroad, although I cannot do the research right now to independently confirm that, so I will just put it out there as a possibility.

Thank goodness the American public is not quite so gullible about their retirement money as they are about Iraq. Bush had a mandate on terrorism, but not so many people are confident with his domestic platform. So it looks like he has blown his political capital (and not a moment too soon is the way most Democrats feel about that).
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