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To: TimF who wrote (262006)	4/20/2008 7:54:24 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

He had the numbers done and stuck it in the budget for all to see. What makes you think he wasn't trying hard? He was going to use his political capital at least partly on this. SS is the big target for rightwing tax and stealers like Bush. It is huge, it works, it helps the average citizen and it is a successful government program. It makes the rightwing's 'our version of corrupt crony capitalism is the best system in the world' look like juvenile daydreaming. That was just the first salvo. What makes you think it was the last? The big goal was to borrow something like $2 Trillion and buy out the current system. The system would then be turned over to their cronies on Wall Street. ============ "On Social Security, Mr. Cheney, in internal administration discussions, has been advocating that the personal accounts Mr. Bush wants to create within the retirement system be at the large end of what has been under consideration, a position likely to hearten many conservatives in Congress who also want to establish the biggest possible accounts, they say. But he has also been supportive of benefit cuts that some conservatives are telling the White House would be political suicide." nytimes.com