In a message dated 4/4/2004 11:48:06 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > If only FDR could be held accountable for Social > > Security - a policy that > > has done far mroe long-term damage to this country > > than Bush's > > comparatively measly tax cuts will ever do. > > > > JDG > > Yes, but in the long term, we're all dead. In the > short and medium term, right up to the present day, > Social Security did an enormous amount of good. It > is, at the least, unreasonable to blame FDR for > reforms that may well have saved capitalism and > democracy itself just because later politicians lack > the courage to do something about them. Best line from 1952's Red Planet Mars: "235 years of pension. Who'd pay for it all?" It's not a newly discovered problem. William Taylor --------------------- And the Happy Daze Ponzi says, "Heeyyyyy." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
