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Actually, SS IS self-sufficient right now. It won't be in a decade, but today it is. It doesn't use income taxes for funding, so including it in the budget for income taxes is disingenuous, not me pointing out it is self-sufficient.
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Why don't we hear the liberal masses lamenting the "wonders that could be done for education" with the billions spent on the giant Ponzi scheme that is Social Security?
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I don't even claim that entitlement reform isn't a good idea. It is. Lots could be done to improve the system. But the picture you are trying to portray isn't accurate, and you know it (or would if Noonan would write an article about it). |
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I'd say "nice try" but it was actually a very poor one. Quote:
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I'm starting to wonder whether the millennium has already begun. It might only be a matter of days before Mike Waters reveals himself to be the Messiah.
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It was actually liberals who got us into Iraq--neocons who defected from the democratic party over its isolationism since Vietnam. For example, the Kristols, Chris Hitchins, Lieberman. These types had Cheney's ear and were the policy makeers. Notice Ed Koch supported Bush in the last election. Strange bedfellows. Many of them are strongly driven by pro-Israel sentiment. Going to war, especially overseas, takes a kind of idealism, even evangelism, and it's usually bad for business. Hence it's historically been a liberal thing. When I was a kid the republicans used to say that since Lincoln no war ever started while they were in the White House.
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