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To: one_less who wrote (1713)	9/25/2006 2:51:56 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

I would like to say, "More Power to Nancy Pelosi". As a politician, she is just like any other savvy politician doing what comes naturally! .

To: one_less who wrote (1713)	9/25/2006 4:57:07 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

increase the minimum wage. A bad idea but it probably won't be increased enough to cause much harm. revise the Medicare prescription drug program to provide more help to the elderly. Which could mean just about anything, but "to provide more help" probably implies higher spending. put in place recommendations of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks. A number of them were put in place. Again more specifics would be nice. overhaul immigration policy. You can probably get 80% or 90% behind "overhaul immigration policy". Of course many of them would support very different types of overhalls. make it easier to get student loans. How? More spending is again probably part or all of it. reduce subsidies for oil companies. Now that's something that I can get behind. With Pelosi leading the House, Democrats could be expected to let most of Bush's tax cuts expire In other words they would raise taxes. and block any new effort to privatize parts of Social Security. I'm sure they would block such efforts. But no effort to privatize social security has ever been made. A really private program would not longer be social security, it would be something very different. Bush's programs were not real privatization. On the balance I'd probably support Bush's ideas for social security reform, but both sides portray the action as a bigger deal than it really is. The ideas will neither destroy nor save social security if they get enacted.