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

To: jttmab who wrote (9200)	1/6/2002 1:44:48 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

ahhh, I see where your logic and sophistry falls apart. Your assumption is that because someone enjoys and finds an article excellent to read, they have completely bought into every spoken word of the article. And therefore a third party attack based on this assumption is warranted. Do you only read books, articles and references which you agree with? Further, have you never found an article good, or well written, which provided a unique way of looking at things without "buying into the rhetoric" as you say? Pretty sad if true.... As to your social security rhetoric. Let me let you in on a big secret. Given current demographic trends the social security system is going bankrupt. If we do nothing it will go bankrupt. Let me say this clearer so you don't miss the meaning. If we allow time to progress without reforming the system, it will not be self-sustaining unless we reform it, or take the money out of the treasury to support it. Therefore, we have a choice. 1. Ignore the seriousness of the issue and put our heads in the sand and pretend it's not happening. (on the surface this appears to be your position). 2. Raise taxes on the young more and more in order to support the system, eventually burdening our youth with the highest tax rate in the history of our country. 3. Increase the age eligibility requirement for retirement funds to be released. 4. Partially, or fully, privatize the system, allowing the young to opt out while paying off the promises we made to the elderly. Or a combination of them all. A bipartisan commission was recently formed and their conclusions (although not fully publicized yet), point to partial privatization as a step in the right direction. The rhetoric from mindless "I want to impeach Bush" lovers is that we will "let the elderly starve", or "cut off their benefits" "or bankrupt the treasury by partially privatizing the system". Which camp do you fall into? If we end the recession as rapidly as possible by cutting taxes, and creating a better business environment around which organizations may begin to grow again. Then limit the growth of federal spending to the inflation rate, (or just above it) a suplus will be created which will off-set the lost revenue from partial privatization. The net effect, many years from now, will be a sound Social Security system which doesn't place a massive tax burden on the young in order to support it. From Chile, to Australia, to Great Britain, partial privatization of previously controlled government retirement is proceeding with mostly positive results. The anti-change left wing "we can't make it work" Americans are holding up sound solutions. No answer is a panacea. And given our current situation we shouldn't expect one. But the forces of anti-change seem to believe in nirvana or nothing.