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

To: Scumbria who wrote (143024)	5/6/2001 12:25:38 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Your attempts to keep the poor and lower-middle classes down by chaining them to the greatest Ponzi scheme in human history differs not at all from the "benevolent master" self image that Southern slaveholders held of themselves. Your national debt smokescreen is similar to the arguments used to justify slavery and encourage it in the new territories of the pre-Civil War period. And to make things worse you are fooling even yourself, since-if you could preserve the current obscene level of federal looting-you would then do nothing but think up new and more harmful ways of spending it. Liberal talk of debt reduction is a convenient hypocrisy for them. Debt reduction, in itself, is economic poison. Spending the overcharge as an alternative continues us down the road to tyranny. The true reactionaries today are on the left. That is transparent...

To: Scumbria who wrote (143024)	5/6/2001 12:36:18 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Scumbria, everybody knows saving for retirement is a long term proposition. Sure, if the SS fund was plopped into the Nasdaq in 1999 people would be hurting now. That's not the idea, as you well know. They put in a small proportion over many years. Over the long run, they'll be far better off. It's common knowledge that people (like me) who are close to retirement should not be heavily into stocks unless they can tolerate the risk. >>>>It is a shame that the SS Fund wasn't invested in the NAZ for the last 12 months.