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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (16668)	4/7/2000 10:36:00 AM
From: lawdog	Respond to of 769670

"At a community center in Philadelphia, Al Gore yesterday proposed what he called "new reforms to modernize Social Security and strengthen it for the future." This is Newspeak at its purest. Gore's two proposed reforms--eliminating what he calls the "motherhood penalty" and increasing benefits for widows--are, in the versions he has proposed them, simply election-year benefits increases that would weaken Social Security by worsening its long-range fiscal problem..." Here's the link, slate.msn.com