Al Gore gives him all the openings, but George W. doesn’t seem to take advantage of any of them. Could it be that dubya doesn’t understand the real Social Security problem or the national debt? So soft spoken, he lets all these statements pass him by.

For instance:

• Surplus: No response. Bush doesn't use the fact that it's all from entitlement over-payments with Social Security and Medicare the biggest contributors. Money that's not supposed to be used elsewhere. Half of Congress has already confessed to this theft.
  
  
• Prescription Drugs: How many of these could have been bought for the elderly with the $232 billion stolen from Medicare as of the close of fiscal 1999? Theft that's over a quarter trillion by now.
  
  
• Lock-Boxes: The Democrats have killed two lock-box bills for Social Security and Medicare (H.R. 1259 & H.R. 3859). Both bills passed the House of Representatives by an overwhelming majority of nonpartisan votes, one a year and a half ago.
  
  
• $1 of $6: The same 16 percent of FICA taxes that the government steals from Social Security and Medicare every year. Gore says Social Security will collapse if the government isn't allowed to continue stealing it for pork-barrel spending and the new world odor.
  
  
• Personal Accounts: Compare these to the government's own Thrift Savings Plan. A privatized retirement investment system to allow two million government employees to invest in the stock market through Barclay Bank of Great Britain. Currently yielding a 28 percent average profit per year for politician's and bureaucrats. Good enough for them, but not for you. Gore criticizing Bush's idea for similar personal accounts is hypocrisy at its finest.
  
  
• Full faith and credit of the United States: "That's good enough for me" says Al. At this point, Bush could have gone right into the fact that this means backed by every man, woman and child in the country. How Treasury securities are all paid-off, redeemed, by the public; i.e., with public tax money in the general fund. How the nonmarketable bonds in mistrust funds, substituting for money paid once and stolen, represent double payment for tomorrow's taxpayers. Double taxation, plain and simple. To Al Gore, a "lock-box" is nothing more than holding these bogus bonds close to his chest.

The media, who are also afraid of numbers, miss this too. The same media spinsters are still putting out comments about Gore's make-up, his lying about trips to Texas, and the same old scare story about “76 million baby-boomers” looming on the horizon. A figure not backed by census totals decade to decade. The only source of such information—but never checked by any of the spinsters.

As if that were not enough, how can we ever expect anyone in our so-called “watchdog” groups to understand the money laundering operation instituted by the Democrats to pay down the national debt? There’s little hope when they believe that an organization generating more than $80 billion in profit this year alone (Social Security), is in trouble. And that such money is better spent by the government—for any cause, including the debt.

Give George some credit though. He did mention that there is “no money in government trust funds.” And he did say that Al Gore thinks our tax money “belongs to him.” But he said it so softly, I wonder if anyone heard him but me. At a time when he should be banging his shoe on the podium, George is still playing the nice guy.

Hey George, we already understand the “bring integrity back to the White House” bit. It’s time to be more assertive.