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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (6123)	8/24/2001 6:44:22 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

There IS no trust fund and each party has been responsible for creating public confusion over the matter. The current demolib pinhead mantra that Bush is raiding the sacred "Trust Fund" is total bullshirt.... I might agree with you here, if we can agree on a little more detail.... There actually is a trust fund, there always has been and it's in the form of Treasure bills. Whether those have value or not might be debated by some, but I don't think that Greenspan and the rest of the Fed would claim that T-Bills are worthless. So you can take that argument up with them. I'd actually agree with G.W. [who took this position for around 1 day] that it's an accounting game to hide the actually deficit and has little to do with the actual trust fund one way or another. The Reps started the rhetoric game of calling this accounting trick spending the SS Trust fund. Then they starte the "lock box" rhetoric game....they won that game with the public and now that the Administration wants to hide the deficit again...they want to abandon the "lock box" rhetoric game. So now the Dems want to play the "lock box" rhetoric game and the Reps are ticked off that they can't play the accounting trick rhetoric game. Who knows what Bush's position [game] will be tomorrow, he flips like a trout you just pulled out of the water? BTW....I haven't been able to read much news the last several weeks....what's the Administration's current position on releasing the details of the meetings that Cheney had with the energy companies...first they wouldn't, then they would release everything, then they wouldn't....what's the latest position? jttmab

To: jlallen who wrote (6123)	8/24/2001 7:01:12 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

washingtonpost.com I really feel sorry for Powell and the State Department. Any rationale person could read the above story and realize that there isn't a country that would believe anything that comes out of the State Department. I'm not even sure there is a country that would believe anything that Bush has to say...they would probably think .... we might as well wait till tomorrow....Bush will probably say something different. Ooops, in the spirit of the State Department, Bush will clarify his position. A Bush Strategy! Keep 'em guessing. Looks like the talks with the Russians are going exceptionally well. jttmab