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Subject:Re: Kiss your retirement buh bye.
Date:Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:22:25 -0700
From:"LastDance" <mmd@msn.com>
Newsgroups:alt.politics.misc,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics
Please give documentation on this story

"Truth & Justice" <nowhere@nohow.com> wrote in message 
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> Bush raids federal pension fund:
>
> Friday October 15, 2004
>
> US President George Bush's administration announced emergency measures
> to skirt a $7.38-trillion debt limit.
>
> Treasury Secretary John Snow said he would steal from pension money to
> keep the government running.
>
> In a letter to Senate majority leader Bill Frist on Thursday, Snow said
> he was immediately suspending payments to a federal employees'
> retirement scheme, the Government Securities Investment Fund (G-Fund).
>
> He said that he was hoping that the missing money could be repaid at
> some unspecified time in the future.
>
> The admission of fiscal mismanagement by the administration comes less
> than three weeks before Bush faces Democratic challenger Senator John
> Kerry in the November 2, presidential election.
>
> "George Bush continues to make history for all the wrong reasons: He's
> the first president to go without creating a new job since the Great
> Depression and now he's run up more debt in [a] shorter period of time
> than all the presidents combined in the 200 years from Washington
> through Reagan," said Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer.
>
> This is the third time he's broken his promise not to raise the debt
> ceiling.
>
> House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi described Snow's manoeuvre as "a
> shameful admission" that the administration's economic policies had
> failed the American people.