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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (1239)	10/4/2000 3:30:13 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Uh........no. I mean a real third party guy. We should make all candidates wear a mask and stand on boxes to make them all the same height too. The problem is nobody ever went broke underestimating the intellect of the American people. As a result a mask and box would make it impossible for idiots to vote for the tallest, best looking man or woman. You know who you are....quit voting with your head in your colon. The best guy for the job was run out of town early because he was too ugly. It's time for real change. I don't want to pay into SS. I don't want to hang another problem like free drugs on the system. We already did that in the 60's. It was doomed for failure then and it's doomed for failure now. FDR did what he thought best at the time by creating SS. LBJ did what he thought best by hanging medicare onto the deal. They were fine ideas then but today I question both solutions. Lets not allow another 50 years of 15.3% of our income to flow out the door. If a person or family making 40k per year was required to put 15.3% of their income away they would have 1.3 million dollars in 40 years if the average rate of return was 7%. Now 1.3 million doesn't sound like that much to me in 40 years but that doesn't take into account better returns or wage increases. What it does do is remove our money from the governments back pocket. They have proven time and time again that they can't be trusted with our money! Sorry....I wish I was better with the pen so I could really explain my ideas.