[now, i think this is where the following statement usually
comes into play: "Can i get some of what he's smoking???"
sit him on a streetcorner in anywhere USA for 24 hours and
see how prosperous life is, and how this is a high-point of
anything but a dysfunctional society, readily apparent from
all those whom don't fit-into it this wealth accumulator, and
in a society without a social dimension, he is valueless as
a human being, if he does not make a monetary profit for that
shell game cum pyramid scheme also known as the United Statesian
benefactors society, aka, the privatized US government. when the
morality plays come to town, most likely on tv, as there is no
genuine local culture that is controlled from top down, if there
is any anymore... and let's see the passion brought to the problems
faced by people without heat for the winter (more drilling!),
without money to pay for their energy bills (more tax refunds!),
and without an ability to fuction in an inefficient system (more
SUVs! more Developmental Sprawl!). hurrah! hurrah! we're winning!
that's the word from the top, who are you gonna believe... etc]
Treasury Secretary Sees 'Golden Age'
The Associated Press
Sunday, June 24, 2001; 1:49 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Sunday that the
country is "on the edge of a golden age of prosperity," describing
the current economic slowdown as an "adjustment period."
"I think we're not doing badly for the kind of correction that we're
in right now," O'Neill said on ABC's "This Week."
"It's easy to find gloom and doom, but consumers are hanging in
there, their spending rates are still quite good," O'Neill said. "The
contraction occurred ... in the investment sector, where we had an
overexpansion."
The Treasury chief was less optimistic about the future of Social
Security. "We're headed toward a situation where we're going to have
a lot more people retired and a lot fewer workers providing payroll
taxes, that we've got to do something different," he said.
The answer, he said, is the Bush plan to let workers invest some of
their Social Security contributions into personal savings accounts.
"It's a big idea," O'Neill said. "It's time for us to make every
American into a wealth accumulator, not a creator of an entitlement
benefit."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010624/aponline134915_000.htm
comes into play: "Can i get some of what he's smoking???"
sit him on a streetcorner in anywhere USA for 24 hours and
see how prosperous life is, and how this is a high-point of
anything but a dysfunctional society, readily apparent from
all those whom don't fit-into it this wealth accumulator, and
in a society without a social dimension, he is valueless as
a human being, if he does not make a monetary profit for that
shell game cum pyramid scheme also known as the United Statesian
benefactors society, aka, the privatized US government. when the
morality plays come to town, most likely on tv, as there is no
genuine local culture that is controlled from top down, if there
is any anymore... and let's see the passion brought to the problems
faced by people without heat for the winter (more drilling!),
without money to pay for their energy bills (more tax refunds!),
and without an ability to fuction in an inefficient system (more
SUVs! more Developmental Sprawl!). hurrah! hurrah! we're winning!
that's the word from the top, who are you gonna believe... etc]
Treasury Secretary Sees 'Golden Age'
The Associated Press
Sunday, June 24, 2001; 1:49 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Sunday that the
country is "on the edge of a golden age of prosperity," describing
the current economic slowdown as an "adjustment period."
"I think we're not doing badly for the kind of correction that we're
in right now," O'Neill said on ABC's "This Week."
"It's easy to find gloom and doom, but consumers are hanging in
there, their spending rates are still quite good," O'Neill said. "The
contraction occurred ... in the investment sector, where we had an
overexpansion."
The Treasury chief was less optimistic about the future of Social
Security. "We're headed toward a situation where we're going to have
a lot more people retired and a lot fewer workers providing payroll
taxes, that we've got to do something different," he said.
The answer, he said, is the Bush plan to let workers invest some of
their Social Security contributions into personal savings accounts.
"It's a big idea," O'Neill said. "It's time for us to make every
American into a wealth accumulator, not a creator of an entitlement
benefit."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010624/aponline134915_000.htm