On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:57:58 GMT, "Jim," wrote:

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/les..._president.php

extract

Calling for “courage and honesty,” Mr. Bush delivered a State of the
Union address notably lacking in both. The speech covered the normal
bedsheet of issues, but its core was the president’s plans on Social
Security. Bush and his political guru Karl Rove believe that they have
a chance to consolidate the power of the right wing for a generation—and
they are pushing to privatize Social Security.

How is allowing the *voluntary* placing of at most *4%* of your social
security deduction into an index fund, such as those in the Thrift
Savings Program, the 'privatizing' of social security?

Now you're sounding like Pelosi or Reid.

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

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