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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (129784)	2/28/2001 10:05:08 PM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 769667

It was Lyndon Johnson who began raiding Social Security and for the first time put in in the grubby hands of politicians to buy votes. He used it to wage a war on poverty. Now we are in this mess because of this miserable idea of redistribution of wealth. We have more poor today than when he started his war but billions of dollars have been removed from the economy and placed in Washington. And you are worried about Bush. Let's see you liberals have destroyed the education system the social security system, and our military. Phew thank God you were defeated in the attempt to take over the health care system.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (129784)	3/1/2001 12:58:12 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Nadine, rather then defend Bush's initiative and go into a long explanation describing why partial privatization of social security is a sound path to follow, (which I've done here at great length in the past). I will simply ask a couple of questions. What solution would you offer to deal with the baby boomer imbalances coming our way? What solution have Democrats offered? It's very easy to always be against something. Much more difficult to propose a solution to an obvious problem. Democrats are very good at pointing out problems. Very poor at offering any real solutions, except, "tax more".