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To: geode00 who wrote (262159)4/21/2008 7:24:24 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Republicans have been trying to kill SS from the beginning.

Maybe in the beginning, but not for a long time.

They managed to make negotiating with mega corporations illegal.

Maybe you have some meaningful point here but are not phrasing it correctly. If I take your sentence literally, its silly, but I can think of one or two things that you might mean by it. Rather than guess what you might mean, I'd prefer to have you tell me.

They managed to give the wealthiest people huge tax breaks.

They managed to cut taxes all around, not just for the wealthiest people. In fact many of the working poor where taken off the tax roles completely, or pay not net income taxes after EITC.

Right wing Republicans are supremely happy with the Bush administration.

Some are. Most aren't.

the American public whom, Republicans feel, should just take it in the shorts time and time and time again.

Nonsense.