Bush Sets Up Social Security 'War Room'

[wolf]

Originally Posted by richlevy

After, all you have to have people who have experience coordinating with outside groups running smear campaigns. Also, being inside the government gives everyone the opportunity to ask Homeland Security to run background checks on opponents. Let's not forget to make sure that those paid advertisments on TV look like real news shows, and remember to bribe those columnists.

I even have a new name for it. How about 'Ministry of Truth'?

I have a better one ... "private industry".

If the government is to be run like a business, why be surprised when they act like one?

[tw]

Replace every dollar taken by the government from the SS Trust Fund with Treasury Bonds. SS problem solveds. It the SS Trust Fund was paid back interest on all the money taken from it to pay other bills, then the SS Trust Fund would have no financing problems. But then we might notice how much money George Jr was really spending.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by tw

Replace every dollar taken by the government from the SS Trust Fund with Treasury Bonds. SS problem solveds. It the SS Trust Fund was paid back interest on all the money taken from it to pay other bills, then the SS Trust Fund would have no financing problems. But then we might notice how much money George Jr was really spending.

That was I think the reason that Greenspan was reluctantly in favor of some form of privitization, to keep Congress from raiding the trust fund 'lockbox' to lessen the deficit.

I like your solution better, TW. Make the bastards at least pay interest.

[xoxoxoBruce]

If the government is to be run like a business, why be surprised when they act like one?

Good God, the last thing I want is the Gumint to emulate big business. Enron is not the answer.