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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (676927)	3/26/2005 4:12:00 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well. I actually don't have any argument against anything you've said here, Buddy. I quite agree with all of it. Unfortunately, no one really gives a flip about the national debt because both the concept of debt and the actual debt itself are too abstract (just keep the debt perpetually. That's what Americans do anyway). And they care about Medicare/caid merely because they think they are getting something from it for nothing. I only mention SS because that is the issue politicians are using at the moment to better ensure they keep their jobs. Yeah, the Democrats have a point. We should do nothing about it. After all, there is enough in the fund to give %70 of benefits ten years from now. Heck, SS is doing real swell because, when you really think about it we could easily do nothing for twenty, maybe even thirty years and still have the program produce up to 17% of the promised benefits. I think that is saying something right there! As long as Americans are able to eat burgers and watch TV hardly anyone will care about such things as the National Debt. That little debt ticker you folks like to throw around from time-to-time may as well be the time in Moscow for all Americans care. So it really makes no sense to harp on it. I don't give a flying flip about the national debt and I won't write any politician asking him/her to do anything about it. Nothing can be done anyway, at least nothing I am willing to do. There is only one sensible thing to do at this point, and that is do everything you can, while all is calm, to jump ship when the time comes.