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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (286038)	8/12/2002 4:37:06 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

You seem to have a rather shallow understanding of media-driven politics. "Positioning" is a large part of the requirement, and will be, as long as votes are taken on a regular basis. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and Medicare is a violation of the Constitution. Most honest politicians today know and understand this, but none will state it. The uninitiated and ignorant (like yourself) like to draw broad-based conclusions about that. But your conclusions simply show a lack of understanding of the subtlety of the political trade as practiced in a free republic. If we are lucky, we will see, in our lifetimes, a political "sea change" where the public doesn't just want Social Security and Medicare privatized and prevented from ever being public programs again, but will yell for recriminations against those politicians who supported the two scams. Those recriminations will, of course, be inappropriate: The people voting, in their own era, demanded that their candidates support these massive felonies. But the "New Era" politicians of that future day will have their own requirements to adhere to. History shows us that it is always this way, and indicates it always will be. The resort industry in Nevada would like the Yucca controversy to go away faster than it is currently fading. But, essentially, they don't see the dump as a serious concern...