GORE IS RIGHT
		..........Al Gore is right about one thing when, in regard to Social Security reform, he says "why fix something that isn't broken?" Give him credit. He recognizes that an organization with a single year net profit of $68.6 billion (fiscal '99) is not in trouble. ..........This does not, however, mean that Social Security doesn't have problems. It has one main, overriding, enormous problem. And that problem stems from the government itself. A government that robs all of this excess/profit/surplus to spend on wars in Kosovo and Iraq, world banking ventures, special interests and other pork barrel activities it could not otherwise afford. Al Gore completely ignores this fact. ..........The total stolen from Social Security alone is now more than $864 billion. Count in the other entitlements that they rob with equal impunity and the total is more than $2 trillion, 35 percent of the national debt. These figures count interest paid against the theft, of course. Interest that's paid without any skin off the government's nose since they simply issue each trust fund more nonmarketable bogus bonds to cover the interest due. ..........This is what is meant by "strengthening" Social Security. Putting more bogus nonmarketable bonds in trust funds for you, your children and grandchildren to someday redeem with general income tax payments. ..........Both Gore and Clinton, plus most of the democratic party, now claim that they should use these funds to pay down the national debt. A debt that they helped run up by excessive borrowing through the sale of bonds on the open market over the last 20 years. ..........Somehow, in their minds, this does not amount to more stealing. Using retirement and health care payments to pay off their credit card is what they consider a worthy cause. ..........Rather than bite the bullet and make sensible debt payments while cutting back on pork barrel expenditures or things like the fantasy star wars experiment, the democrats feel perfectly justified in the continued theft of your retirement and health care overpayments. It's for a good cause, right? ..........On May 19, 1999, more than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed HR 1259 by the phenomenal nonpartisan vote of 416 to 12. This was the bill known as "The Lock-Box." It was not a very effective way to stop Congress and the Administration from stealing Social Security funds since it merely made it embarrassing for anyone to ask for these monies. But it was the best proposal we've had so far. ..........Since that time, HR 1259 has been in the Senate where democratic senators have filibustered to keep it from coming up for a vote. Now it's lost in committee and will probably never be heard of again. ..........The democratic senators have done this in support of Clinton's plan to pay down the national debt with your retirement money. You should know this if you have plans to vote democratic this November. A vote for Al Gore is a vote to continue the theft of your retirement and health care money.