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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (172759)	8/19/2001 11:25:33 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

<<I have to work at being dumb.>> No, it seems to come natural to you. The answer about the interest is certainly not. Not any more than I am earning interest if I empty my checking account and then book regular interest payments for myself into it against the "loan". That personal activity is legal, but insane. The vapor bonds of Social Security are both a legal and insane fraud also. But my checkbook exercise would do no real damage to anyone other than, possibly , myself. While the "trust fund" myth carries dangers I have previously described, and you are, apparently, too dumb to understand...