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To: Amy J who wrote (281254)	3/22/2006 7:13:19 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573543

re: "Remember that SS receipts have been counted as general revenue since about 1970" That sounds like funny money. How was it handled before? The accounting was separate from the federal budget. Now they use the "unified budget" that includes the SS surplus. The actual deficit is much larger but for the SS surplus. re: I think you have to allocate a certain percentage for each of the variations. x% for this age bracket, x% for that age bracket, etc., ...., 50% women, 50% men, w% for weathy, w% for poor, etc. How, without repealing democracy? John

To: Amy J who wrote (281254)	3/22/2006 9:37:03 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573543

Here's a place for you to move and put all your money in, since they got rid of the evil white man it's a Utopia. Trashing a nation "In 1980, it took two Zimbabwean dollars to equal one U.S. dollar in value. Today, it takes about 99,000. Zimbabwe was once an exporter of food. Today, a United Nations report conservatively estimates that one in four Zimbabweans depends on food aid from abroad. The nation's unemployment rate, meanwhile, stands at about 80 percent. "Zimbabwe is a nation in free fall. ... "As with many economic problems, Zimbabwe's financial crisis stems from political machinations. ... President Robert Mugabe six years ago seized thousands of white-owned farms and turned them over to 'war veterans.' ... Those farms, which used to employ hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans, now produce only a fraction of what they once did. "Then last summer, Mr. Mugabe began Operation Murambatsvina ('drive out the trash'), which displaced hundreds of thousands of political opponents by destroying tens of thousands of urban homes and business structures. ... [T]he effect was to make homeless or disrupt the livelihoods of 2.4 million Zimbabweans -- about 18 percent of the country's population -- according to the United Nations." -- Timothy Lamer, writing on "Man-made disaster," in the March 25 issue of World