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Interesting times ahead....
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...88485db045&e=4
Whose Social Security Stash Is It?
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Major/Fundamental problem is that both parties are totally
obsolete and are anachronisms in today's' society/economy. While
both parties have "solutions" unfortunately, these are not for
any current problems. The Republicans and Democrats have no more
role to play than the Whigs and Federalists, and are now simply
the 21st century version of the "Blues" and the "Greens."

The depression is over. The cold war against Russian Bolshevism
has been won. We have moved on to a post-industrial
abstract/service economy from one based on small free holder
agriculture and mass-production manufacturing.

Washington is again (still?) engaging in a "deck chair
rearranging contest" as the Titanic continues to take on water.
What is it about the immediate dangers of out-of-control federal
deficits, out-of-control current account trade deficits, and
out-of-control immigration that is so hard to understand?

As in most cases when the magic stops working, the preferred
solution is apply more potions and shout the spells louder, not
examine the situation and see what has changed.

At some point is becomes evident that it is no longer cost
effective (or even possible) to keep repairing the old car, and
the time has come to get a new one.

GmcD