... [snip] ...   
   -> ->> When Bush lied, thousands died.   
   ->    
   ->  FS> Pres. George W. Bush NEVER lied to the American people.   
   ->  FS> Not even ONCE!   
   ->    
   ->  Only on the basis that Bush was ignorant of what his   
   ->  administration was doing around him.   
   ->    
   -> ->> Bill Clinton left office as the most popular president in history,   
   -> ->> even more popular than Ronald Reagan.   
   ->    
   ->  FS> Pres. Ronald Reagan, America's GREATEST modern President,   
   ->  FS> is more popular than Bill Clinton is or ever was!   
   ->    
   ->  Reagan was senile in office, probably when he took office.   
      
   Yeah, that's how he came up with the brilliant Strategic Defense Initiative   
   -- the straw that broke the USSR's back.  Some "senility"!!   
       
   -> ->> Like former president Jimmy   
   -> ->> Carter, no American troops lost their lives in combat.  And that is   
   -> ->> a truly remarkable feat.   
   ->    
   ->  FS> Bill Clinton was far too busy chasing skirts to start a war   
   ->    
   ->  Bill Clinton didn't have to chase, they chased him.   
      
   Tell Hillary that!   
       
   ->  FS> ... fortunately the nation was never in danger until 9/11   
   ->  FS> then Dubya protected us.   
   ->    
   ->  Dubya let it slip past him, as more and more evidence is coming   
   ->  out to show.   
      
   Doubtless more Democrat Party propaganda   
       
           ... [snip] ...   
      
   -> ->> Neither the war on Iraq nor the war on Afghanistan were paid for,   
   -> ->> the funds having been borrowed from the social security trust fund   
   -> ->> by the previous administration.  Those costs are now catching up   
   -> ->> with us, as those bills are coming due.   
   ->    
   ->  FS> They cannot "borrow" from the so-called Social Security   
   ->  FS> Trust Fund since it contains only promises, no cash, only   
   ->  FS> IOUs (called Treasury Bonds) which will be paid by future   
   ->  FS> generations.   
   ->    
   ->  That's how they borrow. Tax money comes into Social Security,   
   ->  the surplus goes into the trust fund and is used to buy treasury   
   ->  securities, which then releases the actual tax money to the   
   ->  general fund.   
   ->    
   ->  The IOUs are the treasury securities.   
      
   As I said.  However the "Trust Fund" is usually discussed as tho it were a   
   huge vault with piles and piles of currency stacked in it.   
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