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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I ran across this bumper sticker: "You can fool some of the people all of
> the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
>   --- President George W. Bush, speaking at a Gridiron Club dinner,
> Washington, D.C., March 2001
>
> I wonder if the SS Reform fits into this category?

I am suspicious of his motivations--looks to me like private accounts are 
good for Wall Street. In fairness, it also seems it might bolster 
investment capital for American business. I am glad that he has opened the 
discussion.

As for fooling people, he and Rove are masters. They use fear very 
successfully and only retreat to lesser motivations when forced: first use 
the mushroom cloud and WMD, when that is seriously questioned, retreat to 
removing a tyrant and spreading democracy. And never, NEVER, admit you were 
wrong.