Arizona Daily Star: "Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Wednesday that the country can't afford the Social Security retirement benefits promised to baby boomers and urged Congress to trim them."
What's up, Alan? Is capitalism in its death throes? Is it unable to guarantee a decent old age for the majority? Or is the crisis the result of Bush's deficit? Of course, if the government treasury is empty they could no longer afford to pay pensions.

So, Alan, are you proposing to raise wages then, so that people can save for their retirement? Or is it your intention to let the OAPs rot and die? The nation is not an institution, Mr Greenspan, the nation is the people. The nation cannot afford to lose their retirement benefits.

Let's face it. Bush is bankrupting America. Does that sound far-fetched to you? It isn't. It makes sense. The purpose of the neo-cons is to weaken the government as much as possible to make the corporations even more powerful. They can only do this by plundering the treasury (wars are ideal for this), by lowering taxes and by siphoning money from social purposes to the war industry and multinationals. That's exactly what Bush is doing now. With an empty treasury you can tell the nation that there is no more money for social security.

If Bush wins the coming elections it will only be the result of another dirty trick or election fraud. Then he could go on destroying the government institutions and play his apocalyptic games. If he loses the elections he leaves to the democrats a huge deficit and the tremendous problem to mend the government.
Après moi, Bush, le déluge. [Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio]

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SFGate: "President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have placed strict limits on the private interviews they will grant to the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, saying they will meet only with the panel's top two officials and that Bush will submit to only a single hour of questioning, panel members said Wednesday.
The commission, which has 10 members and is bipartisan, said it also had been informed by the White House that Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, had rejected its request that she testify in public about the intelligence reports she received before the attacks."

If they had nothing to hide, they would not shroud themselves in secrecy. Condi is one of those who are responsible for the 9/11 catastrophe. She knew and let it happen.
On Lisa Rein's Radar texts and videos of Bill Moyers' Veil of Secrecy: how the Bush administration used 9/11 as a pretext to remove rights and hide behind secrecy. [Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio]

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[Washington Post: Nation and Politics]  By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer

President Bush will bar the U.S. military from using certain types of land mines after 2010 but will allow forces to continue to employ more sophisticated mines that the administration argues pose little threat to civilians, officials said yesterday.

The new policy, due to be announced today, represents a departure from the previous U.S. goal of banning all land mines designed to kill troops. That plan, established by President Bill Clinton, set a target of 2006 for giving up antipersonnel mines, depending on the success of Pentagon efforts to develop alternatives.

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[Washington Post: Editorial]

PRESIDENT BUSH rightly reversed himself this month and agreed to extend the absurd May deadline that imperils the work of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The panel known as the 9/11 commission, however, still faces a roadblock: House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert. Mr. Hastert opposes the two-month extension without which the commission says it cannot finish its report -- and he says he will not bring it up for a vote in the House of Representatives.

The speaker barely even pretends to have a reason for his obstructionism other than protecting Republican political interests. His spokesman, John Feehery, says that it's important to hear the commission's recommendations as quickly as possible. But he quickly comes to the real point: Mr. Hastert wants the commission's report over and done with before the general election starts in earnest. Two of the Democratic commissioners, Richard Ben-Veniste and former congressman Timothy J. Roemer, are "known to have sharp political elbows," Mr. Feehery warns. The speaker does not want their work to "stretch into the political season." Any extension will simply "be used by the partisans on the committee to leak things."

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