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Wussy Lindsay Graham Lost My Vote<br>
by Dick McDonald<br>
Originally posted to BNN  3/10/2005<br><br>
A politician I looked to for future leadership was Senator Lindsay Graham. No longer.  Today he calls it a "strategic mistake" for President Bush to first introduce personal accounts rather than solve the "solvency" issue. He has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18251-2005Mar8?language=printer">swallowed this nonsense</a> ever since he talked to Democrats. The guy is a wuss. Won't take the fight to the people. Doesn't understand mathematics or governmental accounting. He flat out fails the 21st. Century leadership test. Apparently Bush has lost another myopic to the brain-dead issue of solvency.<br>
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First of all we have $1.7 trillion in US bonds in the "fictional" Social Security Trust Fund we could sell to reduce our "real" national debt to cover the initial shortfall.  Then we could require a portion of the money placed in personal accounts be spent on buying out the foriegn ownership of our bonds. Eventually our unfunded Social Security liability would self-liquidate and poor Lindsay's fears would be over. He could rejoin the party of the free and the brave and grow back his spine.<br>
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Dick McDonald blogs at <a href="http://www.dickmcdonald.blogspot.com" target="_blank">The Right Scale</a>.<br>
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