12/03/08

Wrong Questions On Social Security Light
By Ed Henry

Bob Schieffer may be a nice old man and a longtime news anchor from CBS, but as far as I'm concerned when it comes to questions on Social Security he's a nitwit, ill informed, or another Bonesman protecting his brothers.

To introduce the subject of Social Security, Schieffer started out by saying; "Mr. President, the next question is addressed to you. We all know that Social Security is running out of money, and it has to be fixed ..." From there, he went into Bush's plan for personal accounts.

That's one helluva bit of conjecture to repeat the Washington storyboard line that "Social Security is running out of money," especially when the government just stole $71 billion from our retirement insurance during fiscal 2004.

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Honor the Country by Distrusting the Government
By Sheldon Richman

President Bush and his supporters base their case for his reelection ultimately on an appeal for trust. Bush asks us to trust that he acted in good faith when he invaded Iraq, even though the intelligence now looks bad. He asks us to trust his strategy for domestic security, even though awesome discretionary power is given to the attorney general. He asks us to trust him when he says government shouldn’t run our lives, even though he has presided over a frightening growth in government spending.

The appeal for trust ought to be a hard sell. Weapons of mass destruction have still not been found. Now we learn from the New York Times that when the administration warned that Saddam Hussein had aluminum tubes intended for making nuclear materials, its experts were saying those tubes were most likely for something else. When all someone can ask for is trust, that is the time for suspicion. (Read the rest here)

Holding Up a Mirror to the Face of U.S. “Exceptionalism”
By William Marina

Separated by one hundred and four years, the presidential elections of 1900 and 2004 offer some startling and almost eerie similarities.

In 1900 the Democratic challenger, William Jennings Bryan, opposed incumbent Republican William McKinley, ostensibly over the issue of U.S. imperialism in the Philippines, and years later (1937), the Stanford historian, Thomas A. Bailey asked, “Was the Election of 1900 a Mandate for Imperialism?” (Read the rest here)

Libertarian Commentary on The Day's News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose," goes an old song - but we all know better. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." This is the reason we all get depressed, all too often, by reading or watching or listening to the day's news, and that is why I provide some views and comments on the news, to help us all (me especially) get a better perspective on the events. And they aren't ALL bad, by any means - freedom is NOT lost. So these are my views, and not necessarily anyone else's, but you're welcome to them, and to comment on them!

We'll start with a few items not from RRND, and so I'm including a brief extract from each of them:

A1) Fort Worth, Texas, anti-tax group spurs city to debate legality of special incentive (Additional story)
Fort Worth, Texas, city lawyers temporarily blocked two law suits filed in Austin by the Fort Worth Citizens for Responsible Government. According to the Star-Telegram, the group has been trying to block special incentives for a sporting goods store under construction. City lawyers believe the key issue is whether city funds from a special tax district can be used to help build the superstore. (Read the rest here)

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