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To: JDN who wrote (42464)	3/28/2001 9:12:42 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I so disagree with you about Bush. But you know that. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: JDN who wrote (42464)	3/29/2001 9:25:11 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

<<I think he is winning the hearts and minds of the Average American who is coming to enjoy HONESTY for a change.>> Well here's just the sort of dishonesty i find so troubling coming from our leaders in these economically troubling times, from a March 20th Washington Times article on the state of Social Security and Medicare: 'President Bush seized on the report to make the case for his plans to partially privatize Social Security and to overhaul Medicare. "We have only so many years to get the systems back on track," he told Hispanic business leaders at the White House. "It's time to quit the posturing and time to reform the systems."' ... 'Strikingly, the trustees -- who include the secretaries of treasury, labor and health and human services -- predicted economic growth in the next decade will be much lower than the assumptions used by the Congressional Budget Office and the White House budget office to predict record budget surpluses. The surpluses would virtually disappear under the economic predictions used by the trustees. The trustees offer an optimistic scenario, essentially assuming faster economic growth and slow gains in life expectancy, in which both trust funds are flush for the next 75 years.' So as you can see they're lying about and changing their economic assumptions as it suits their political purposes. Also they're very anxious to get the tax cuts through before the next set of surplus projections come in, as they're likely to be less optimistic, and therefore less supportive of the long term sustainability of his plan. I find this behavior neither honest, competent, nor comforting... Steve Dietrich