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To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (429589)	7/19/2003 2:09:54 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Maybe they (the boomers) will just waive their benefits and say that's our contribution to the welfare of the country. <vbg>

To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (429589)	7/19/2003 2:29:57 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

While the debt and deficit demagoguery just isn't playing for the tax-and spend Democrats anymore, there is a growing number of Boomers-along with an OVERWHELMING preponderance of "X" and "Y" generation voters-who are becoming intolerant of a socialist Democrat party that uses every scrap of their political capital to stop privatization of their Great Social Security Fraud. That issue will shock the left with it's strength in 2004. But that's only a preview of what we are going to see in subsequent elections. George Bush is in front on this issue, and it may well make his legacy, even more so than the resurrection of the Reagan Boom and the war against world Islam. If the socialist Democrats continue to successfully obstruct privatization into 2005, it will lend strength to a far more brutal trend that will dominate by the third decade: elimination of the welfare program and the complete cut off of benefits to all but the very poorest of retirees. We can go the easy and economically-wise route today, or see a lot of suffering in 2021, as a new America corrects our greatest stupidity...

To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (429589)	7/19/2003 4:03:50 PM
From: gerard mangiardi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

No that is bad in the long run. What is more safe than SS as an investment for retirement. Medicare? What of the workers whom all of us capitalists need to make our economy run? You really think they can save that much money on their own in the consumer society we have when many never make more than 40K a year in their lifetime. Christ if they saved more this recession would be a depression. A stronger country is not made when its workers live in constant fear of their future.