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To: tejek who wrote (219001)	2/13/2005 5:28:59 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 1574692

Right now, the inflows into SS are greater than the outflows.......let's bank that surplus with interest and calculate out how much money will be generated 30 years down the road. I bet it will be an awesome sum. The politicians have been spending the surplus as fast as it comes in. They started that during the forty plus years of Democrat control of Congress. It has not been stopped by Republicans. The best chance to stop the practice is to make Uncle Sam send a statement to every stake holder showing how they are investing their money (according to their wishes). Have you met any politicians who promise less spending? Did they get elected / reelected? Let’s not do anything to fix SS. It is the best way to expunge the welfare and great society waste from the federal government. Instead of trying to cauterize the wounds, we jest bleed the problem programs out. It will be like 1800's and prior medical care. There will be no money for anything but SS and Medicare. That's the fear forever repeated by the right. However, the truth is that defense is nearly half of the discretionary funding portion of the budget. When I am given a choice of bombs or keeping people in food in their senior years, I opt for food! Sorry......its that bleeding heart ca ca inside of me. Plus, I like to eat. ;~) You can deny the problem. Denying it does not fix it. The typical politician will try to push problems beyond their term and pretend it is solved. Procrastination makes problems harder to solve. You should admire President Bush for trying to tackle the problem now, instead of adding snow to the avalanche. When it strikes, it will devastate the country. Then when Medicare blows up, the problem may finish the country. Please be reminded that President Bush's plan will create a surplus of saving within the country slowing if not ending the need for foreign financing of our economy. Do you prefer belt tightening now, or starvation budgets later? In a spending contest between reducing spending and giving money to people who don't want to work, I will choose personal responsibility every time. The closer the organization administering the assistance is to the recipient the more appropriate the aid will be. Big programs = big fraud. (Just look at the 100 Billion Dollar Oil for Food Scandal.) Before government tok over charity, were people starving, or were they getting assistance locally? PS - Thanks for the improved tone. Civil communication is a two way street in which neither of us is without responsibility.