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

To: DMaA who wrote (176361)	8/31/2001 10:57:55 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<This strategy requires that the Republicans start acting responsibly on the spending side too. Let Trent Lott slip a billion dollar Mississippi pork boondoggle into a defense bill and Republicans will look like hypocrites:>> Absolutely, and the Bush administration has to lead their own party here. The greatest good that can come out of this debate is if the American people begin to realize that future Social Security benefits depend 100% on the whims of a future Congress, rather than any phony reserving of non-existent funds. And that Congress, decades in the future, will have a far different view of greedy boomers than we have, today of "the depression kids". Our current view of that generation is inaccurate and sappy, but includes some sentiment of obligation to their old age care. The boomers, like Clinton, face a rapidly depreciating legacy. The chances of a future America risking their economy to make transfer payments to this oversized group of air-heads is indeed slim...