Government Lies?

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 19 11:20:31 CDT 2000



Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> The so called trust funds are, and have always, been fictions. They were
> not deceitful, however, but were devised in the 1930s to promote and sell
> the idea that old age and other benefits are an earned right of workers,
> who help pay for them, and not "charity" or "welfare."
> 
>                         P.

Well, they were always deceitful, manipulative tales, just
like Charity and Welfare. And nobody told them better than
Reagan, except JFK's ghostly image and TV good looks and
LBJ's whip cracking foul mouthing and bottle of Scotch. Just
tales in the American dream.  But with all the nosiness
peddled by the powered establishment, including the
nostalgic/guilty media in search of a heroic generation, the
tale of the U.S.  economy, now  a Six Trillion dollar
economy is the story of common men and women and They Are
Still Coming To America.



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