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In article <d0h4um$gjc$2@news.xmission.com>,
glenzabr@nospamallowed.xmission.com (GMAN) wrote:
> In article <jzwick3-82798F.04564106032005@news1.east.earthlink.net>, Jack
> Zwick <jzwick3@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >In article <d0e2e8$g6$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
> > jor@soda.csua.berkeley.edu (Jason O'Rourke) wrote:
> >
> >> In article <I6rWd.28405$uc.13279@trnddc09>, <L230j@verizon.net> wrote:
> >> >Alan Greenspan indicated this week that it may not be possible to 'save
> >> >Social Security' without more or less bankrupting the economy.
> >> >
> >> >Thus Bush and Greenspan have told us what the 'full faith and backing' of
> >> >the US Government means.
> >>
> >> You have to give this Administration credit for at least trying. Clinton
> >> had a committee look into it, make recommendations, and then it faded
> >> away into the night. Now we're 10 years later and still without a fix.
> >> In 15 SS will no longer subsidize deficit spending.
> >> --
> >
> >When Clinton left, the Budget was way to the surplus side, and if it had
> >been left that way, General Revenue funds could easily have been used for
> >Social Security and Medicare. Instead Bush had his tax cuts for the rich;
> >and his yearly promise (yet to be fulfilled) "Just give me this tax cut
> >and the economy will turn around"
> That is untrue, Clintons so called surplus was false. It was padded with
> worthless internet upstarts,energy companies padding their values,etc ad
> nauseum. It was a false economy and it began to collapse way before Bush was
> elected.
Nice try. The Federal Government HAD a surplus. Call it false if you
like, but the dollars were real. I suppose the Bush deficit is false
in your warped world? It's OK, Hillary will be President soon enough.