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

To: flatsville who wrote (41904)	10/3/2000 11:41:28 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

LOL!! Keep the dream alive flathead!!! JLA

To: flatsville who wrote (41904)	10/3/2000 12:09:59 PM
From: kvkkc1	Respond to of 769670

I think GWB ought to ask gore where the $2.2 trillion in IOU's is going to come from. I believe that's the deficit in the social security trust fund. Gore says he will do nothing to the fund.knc

To: flatsville who wrote (41904)	10/3/2000 12:30:14 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 769670

The well articulated Social Security plan: Dallas Morning News: Critics Say Bush Plan Leaves Social Security Broke Sooner/Bush Says It's Not His Job to Fill in the Details of Plan: "Last week, a Washington-based group of liberal economists concluded that Mr. Bush's approach would leave Social Security paying out more than it collected by 2005, a decade earlier than projected by federal officials. The system's trust fund would go broke by 2023, according to the analysis by economists for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.... A major sticking point is ensuring the continued stability of Social Security as billions of dollars are diverted from the public system to private accounts. Some proposals in Congress would reduce the Social Security benefit by the amount of an individual's private account. Other ideas include raising the retirement age and adjusting cost-of-living increases. The governor says he supports the idea of appointing a bipartisan commission to work out those details. 'There is a transition period, I agree with that. And that is what the Congress is going to have to solve,' he said. 'My job is going to be to call a commission together.'... But critics worry that poor investments or a market crash could leave a worker worse off than under the present system. Asked whether he envisions a system in which future beneficiaries would receive no less than they would have under the current system, Mr. Bush said, 'Maybe, maybe not.'" [Slater, Dallas Morning News, 5/15/00] No plan. No clue.