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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Bakunin who wrote (60745)	5/26/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 132070

( OT ) We are an the same wave..that and the bankers never had any business messing with it.. you know for years and years the big bankers could hold the money during the course of the year and never paid a drop of interest, just used it for free. I think they have that fixed now, but they never had to pay up. It was also robbed to pay for many other projects..and they will tell you it wasn't used to bail out the SL fiasco..but it was used just for that "by Proxy" , if all the money that was sucked out of it for things other than the payments were really made public you would have to lock up half the government and 2/3rds of the big banks for fraud. SS has paid for more pork barrel special interest scams than it has payments to the insured..not just the politicians either the bankers have been in on the feast..now wall street wants their cut. They will wrap it up in some noble bullshit about how they are doing it to save it..just tell them to put back what was stolen, and get the entitlement crap out of it, and your Taxes could go down to where you wouldn't be working for the government 80% of the time. And we all work for the government, just most of us don't get paid. <G> Jim