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To: Lane3 who wrote (113184)5/9/2005 8:30:24 PM
From: Paul Smith  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793640
 
Is that what you personally advocate?

You have posted a lot of notes about SS political tactics but am unsure what your stand is. What should be done? This is a policy question not a political tactics question.



To: Lane3 who wrote (113184)5/10/2005 9:38:28 AM
From: haqihana  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793640
 
kholt, Bush has said nothing about shutting down the Social Security benefits, and the author of that quote is way off base to even make such an assumption. He is just shooting blind in an effort to malign the President.

Whether a person likes Bush, or not, they have to admit that he does, or tries his best to do, what he says, and he wants to reform the SS with no mention of eliminating it. He may talk like a country boy, which he is, but he is not stupid, and would not make such an unpopular decision.

I have used the same ploy that Bush does in past business ventures with yankees, and it is quite effective. If you act like an "Aw Shucks" kind of country boy, they get the idea that you are slow in the head, and become ripe for the picking. I used to call on the NY headquarters of J.C. Penney and would wear my cowboy boots, western cut pants, cowboy shirt, and a XXX Resistol. That made those city slickers wonder just who the hell I was to be out of the boondocks, and they could be manipulated like silly putty.