[Rhodes22-list] Political - NOT RELATED TO SAILING!!!

brad haslett flybrad at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 18 15:25:00 EST 2005


Nell,

Give it up!  No matter how many times you repeat the
mantra, facts are facts.  Here's the report from none
other than the Communist News Network.  Brad


http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida.ballots/stories/main.html

--- Nell <nellwolfe at cox.net> wrote:

> I have one small question.
> If W felt so "called by God" to make such sweeping
> changes in Social
> Security, and all the other changes he has
> instituted / proposed since his
> coronation, why didn't he start all the reforms
> during his first stolen term
> of office?
> Certainly, it couldn't be because he was afraid of
> not being re-inducted
> into the hall of shame.
> 
> nellwolfe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of stan
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:10 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Political - for Brad's
> Eyes -
> notrelatedtosailing!
> 
> Brad,
> 
> Hmmm - I am not always wrong.  I note that while we
> speak the market has 
> dropped 84 cents.
> 
> I also said that history would eventually show that
> Clinton had been a great
> 
> president - but now I hear you saying that's
> happening earlier than I 
> thought
> 
> I also thought that no way could the world economy
> take on all the job 
> retirement programs industry and governments were
> giving workers and that 
> they would have to bail themselves out of this
> "math-not-adding-up" 
> situation with a secret plan of programmed
> inflation.  But I was wrong 
> again - they had more balls than I guessed and
> either went out of business 
> with the wealthy taking theirs up front, or simply
> reneged on pension deals 
> that were, in effect, terms where workers took less
> pay to get the jobs in 
> return for the money they would get when they
> retired - really a localized 
> social security but with a different name.
> 
> The bottom line is that when the conservatives get
> in power the name of the 
> game is to take whatever can be taken, away from the
> poor.  And when the 
> liberals get in power, to reverse that damage.  And
> maybe that is nature's 
> law of the survival of the species.
> 
> But my basic argument remains;  and that is, when
> you say the poor want the 
> rich to pay, both god and I would argue that it was
> the poor who helped the 
> rich get there, so where's the beef.  Personally I
> never thought it fair for
> 
> W to tell the rich that the taxes they paid was
> their money so it should be 
> given back to them and the debt incurred in doing
> what had to be done, 
> belongs to the poor, so let them pay - or sell the
> debt to foreigners and 
> let the poor's kids pay.  But what do I know of
> fairness and values - I'm 
> just a leftover Neanderthal from Brooklyn.
> 
> stan.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> To: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>; "The Rhodes 22 mail
> list" 
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Political - for Brad's
> Eyes - 
> notrelatedtosailing!
> 
> 
> > Stan,
> >
> > Be careful what you wish for.  You're right, the
> > original intent was for SS to be an insurance
> program,
> > not a substitute for responsible planning.  I'd
> gladly
> > drop out today and forgo all future benefits but
> that
> > won't happen.  All the polls show that the current
> > recepients want "the rich" to pay the way and I
> fully
> > expect the current $90,000 limit to be raised. 
> Albert
> > Einstein said the eighth wonder of the world was
> > compound interest.  I'd like to see my kids take
> > advantage of that by putting a percentage of their
> > earnings into a controlled investing program. 
> That is
> > precisely the retirement program available to
> Federal
> > Government workers and I don't see a rush on their
> > part to give it up for the SS program.  I think if
> the
> > BHL's would look past their hatred of W they might
> see
> > he's hardly the fiscal conservative those of us to
> the
> > right of Attila the Hun would like.  Like my
> friend
> > always says, in many ways, Bill Clinton was the
> best
> > conservative President we had in a long time. W is
> way
> > to friendly with the pocket-book on programs like
> > Medicare for me.  As to the cuts in agriculture,
> he's
> > right on target. Sometimes things are not what
> they
> > appear.  I do think Bush is right to take on SS
> now
> > and not let the problem fester for future
> generations.
> > The devil is in the details.  We won't hear the
> end
> > of this for a long time.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
> > --- stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Brad,
> >>
> >> I do not even remember his name yet but the
> senate
> >> minority leader sounded
> >> good to me, so far (another Truman type?)
> >>
> >> Re SS. from a selfish point of view Rose and I
> are
> >> getting ours so why worry
> >> (but you know I need diversionary entertainment).
> >> So I'll ad that we have
> >> thought that everyone was looking at this program
> >> myopically.  It really
> >> either was meant to be, or should have been meant
> to
> >> be, a Social Security
> >> Insurance program where everyone pays into it and
> >> only those who need it
> >> when the time comes take the benefits..  My
> >> father-in-law was modestly
> >> wealthy and kept getting his SS checks which
> amazed
> >> us kids because he
> >> simply didn't need it and so would put it into
> the
> >> stock market - he was
> >> ahead of Bush's time.... .
> >>
> >> My guess is that while the president is out there
> >> pushing his investing in
> >> the market idea, the market is going to be
> crashing
> >> and kill the vote.
> >>
> >> stan/ec
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com>
> >> To: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>; "The Rhodes 22
> mail
> >> list"
> >> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 9:35 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Political - for
> Brad's
> >> Eyes - not
> >> relatedtosailing!
> >>
> >>
> >> > Stan,
> >> >
> >> > One of the names that keeps coming up for the
> Dems
> >> in
> >> > 2008 is Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen.  Evan
> >> Bayh
> >> > shot himself in the foot with a lot of
> moderates
> 
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