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

To: American Spirit who wrote (2961)	10/18/2000 12:13:48 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Yeah, and Gore said tonight he is outraged by Hollywood's intentional targeting of violence and sex to children, but didn't mention that Hollywood has just given him MULTI-MILLIONS, and that he wants to give them six months (hmm..., is that after the election and inauguration? hmmm...) to improve their behavior (with no specified standard). And what about the past eight years? Ha. Gore is fighting against the incumbent, but he IS the incumbent!

To: American Spirit who wrote (2961)	10/18/2000 12:15:21 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

You just don't get it do you?? Every surplus dollar that goes into the SS trust fund is immediately loaned to the Federal Government budget. The Federal Government places an IOU in the form of T-Bills or NATIONAL DEBT. The more money that is taken in as a surplus, the more money the SS trust fund has to invest in T-Bills, the more IOUs placed upon the backs of our descendants, and the bigger the government budget grows in order to spend that surplus. BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO SPEND IT'S BUDGET EVERY YEAR AND MONEY BORROWED FROM THE SS TRUST IMMEDIATELY BECOMES PART OF THAT BUDGET. BORROWED SS TRUST FUND MONEY BECOMES PART OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. THAT'S WHY THE MONEY MUST GO BACK TO THE PEOPLE AS A TAX CUT THAT CAN BE USED FOR PENSION AND PERSONAL INVESTMENT. Because let's face facts people... Unless you grow this economy and continue to improve its ability to generate tax revenues, Uncle Sam is going to be running those printing presses overtime to pay out those entitlements they have promised the baby boomers. Let people invest their own money for a personal pension plan... That way we can later on apply a means test for SS benefits in order to keep outlays to a minimum, and the poor retirees, who the system was originally created to assist, taken care of. Remember that entitlements that are provided now will be exponentially increased as the baby boomers retire. Keep that in mind as you all see Al Gore promise the world on the backs of our future generations.