WAKE UP, Mr. BUSH
The vindictive accussation Al Gore, and now Ed Asner too, is making about George W. Bush's plan to jeopardize the Social Security system is THE SAME MONEY that Al Gore and the Washington bureaucrats have been stealing from Social Security. Two points, or 16 percent of every worker's FICA taxes, is the same amount that Washington borrowholics call part of their "surplus" and spend wherever they damned well choose.

I've emailed the Bush camp about this. I've sent them copies of articles explaining it. And now the Treasury's Final Monthly Report for September, the end of the fiscal year, is out detailing all of this. Congress and the current Administration had a surplus of $237 billion in fiscal 2000. Two-thirds of it, $150 billion ($149.818 billion) came from stolen entitlement money. Of that, about $80 billion was excess Social Security money we paid over and above what the supplemental retirement system needed to meet all of its obligations to the currently retired and disabled. Pure profit that was stolen. The other $70 billion came from Medicare, gas taxes and other entitlements robbed with equal impunity.

I am not wrong about this. I got the Treasury Report the minute it came out on October 24th and have been going over it ever since. I even have an entire book on the subject. A book that will be out shortly but that I would gladly share in draft form with Mr. Bush. I've even got verbatim confessions from most of Congress.

Meanwhile, George W. is being clobbered by fear mongers putting out garbage. Scaring oldsters in Florida and anywhere they can corner them. Ed Asner is calling people on the phone telling them that the Bush plan will ruin Social Security. Gore and the Democrats are running ads about it and bringing in every loyal Democrat they can find to support their claims, including Larry Summers the Secretary of the Treasury.

When are you going to come back at them with the truth Mr. Bush??? The debates are over. Your only chance now is to put out the fire with something effective. The truth will do it. And you are in a perfect position to use it since you come from outside the Beltway.

My God, you've even got the government's own Thrift Savings Plan to hit them with. Your father can tell you all about this privatized way of allowing two million government employees to invest in the stock market through Barclay Bank of Great Britain. A system yielding 28 percent average annual return on investment for government employees that received matching funds from their employer. He was there, and probably helped install this plan in 1986 or 1987. In fact, when you first mentioned "personal accounts" I thought you got the idea from your dad. What's the matter, didn't you like the boost it gave you with all the youngsters who don't believe the Social Security system will be there for them?

We were all waiting for someone to take the bull by the horns during the debate. But instead, Social Security was put on the back burner and limited to questions asked briefly.

Now, the opposition is whacking the pants off you with scare stories right where they hurt. Are you going to take this laying down, or are you going to do something about it???