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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (32348)	8/25/2000 10:54:47 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

To cover over that site was the moral equivalent of book burning.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (32348)	8/25/2000 11:31:30 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Tiger, Article... THE DEMOCRATS AS DEFINED BY STUPID AL GORE etherzone.com By: Ed Henry It couldn't be clearer, could it? The platform of the Democrats, as defined by Al Gore, intends to go right on stealing your excess entitlement money in order to pay off the national debt. The extra Social Security, Medicare and even gas taxes every worker in America pays will go towards paying down the enormous debt that the government has run up, mostly since 1980. As Gore puts it: "I will not go along with any proposal to strip $1 out of every $6 dollars from the Social Security Trust Fund and privatize the Social Security that you're counting on." Just so you realize exactly what this means, it's a direct attack on George W. Bush's plan for "personal accounts" from Social Security excess payments you make out of every paycheck. One dollar out of every six dollars is exactly 16.6 percent of the FICA taxes you pay. It's the same two points of your 12.4 points in FICA taxes paid by you and your employer, who would just as soon hand the money to you as the government. The same two points that made up the $68.6 billion "surplus" from Social Security last year. Al Gore intends to take that money in order to pay off the national debt that the government started running up to beat the Russians into the ground economically and win the Cold War. Once that was accomplished, they kept right on running it up to this very day. Last year, the national debt increased $130 billion, despite the lies you hear about paying it down. All from money stolen from entitlements like Social Security, but certainly not limited to that one entitlement alone. To the government's credit, they have stopped running a deficit. They no longer run up the debt by borrowing extra money through the sale of too many Treasury securities on the open market. But that's only because the amounts to steal from entitlements have reached a multiple overriding what was once borrowed on the open market. Last year, they stole $68.6 billion from Social Security alone. $130 billion from all entitlements together. You do remember the long battles over a "balanced budget," don't you? Battles between Republicans and Democrats that began in 1995 with the "Contract with America" and finally ended in November of 1998. Ended with an agreement that put spending caps on everything except money stolen from entitlements. The latter being lumped together with income tax receipts as part of the government's "Unified Budget." An accounting term that has no other purpose than to disguise the fact that they continue to steal your entitlement money. Money that is not supposed to be spent on anything except the purpose for which it was collected. Money that they now call "a surplus." Al Gore and the Democrats are now trying to take full credit for no longer running a deficit, just as they try to take credit for a booming economy. A silly notion equivalent to saying that the police, another regulatory agency, made McDonalds or Microsoft successful. So now you have Al Gore saying that his administration would pay off the $5.7 trillion national debt in ten years or so. All by stealing your Social Security and other entitlement excesses payments. Isn't that nice? Winning the hypocrite of the year award, he's saying this while federal government employees are enjoying a 28 percent (or better) return on retirement money they are allowed to invest in the Thrift Savings Plan. A privatized investment account through Barclay Bank of Great Britain that invests their money in the stock market. How much do you suppose Al has in this account?