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Politics : President George W. Bush - Right or Wrong? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (294)	12/14/2004 11:07:33 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 390

Re: So..is it your opinion that the debt is sort of a backdoor effort to shrink the government by starving it to submission? It's not my opinion. It is the opinion of Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. He's the one who came up with the zinger that 'I just want to make the Federal Government small enough to take into the bathroom and drown in the tub." *** Re: If that is the intention I don't think it's going towork as well in practice as in theory. As we saw in the last budget, the Repubs. are as addicted to pork barrel as the Dems. The addiction is willful and has two large goals. One is to enslave the youth with perpetual interest burdens and the other is to bankrupt the Federal Government in order to be able to tell the public that social services must be cut. It is all a huge fraud. Over the 20 years since Allan Greenspan headed the Commission that raised FICA taxes, the surplus revenue to the Social Security system has been systematically stolen by the military-industrial complex for empire-building. The people and their money have been misused, abused and absconded. Now we have the absurd circus with Dubya and Friends lying through their teeth about Social Security being financial trouble. It is not. What is ruinously fraudulent is the theft of Social Security trust fund money by the rapacious militarists. The Facts and Distortions on Social Security: mediamatters.org