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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (313887)	12/4/2006 7:48:33 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573857

re: I have to correct myself. There was indeed a true surplus in 2000: Social Security Trust Fund: ssa.gov; Thanks for being honest... I didn't know. In fact suspected you were right that there wasn't. We are really not that far apart. You cut some spending, you raise some taxes (yes, on the "rich") and we move back towards a balanced budget. A huge thing for the economy. You address the inefficient use of energy, and you can reduce the other deficit, the trade deficit, by close to 40%. And if you play it right you create a lot of high tech jobs for smart engineers that live in California. Not a bad thing. Export the technology and the trade deficit gets reduced to near zero. Main thing is we have to move forward with the world we have today, not some abstract world based on ideological political crap. We need to be pragmatic and solve problems. It's what we are good at... it's what made this country great.