But, but, Captain! This isn't the Social Security Trust Fund. It's
a workers' pension fund that your AWOL doper pal has his sticky
fingers into this time.

These employees can kiss their retirement plans buh bye.

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Capt. Crunch wrote:
 > You want the truth?  Truth & Justice <nowhere@nohow.com> can't handle
 > the truth. The Moron  wrote:

 >>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.

Capt. Crunch wrote:
 > Because the Social Security trust fund ...

<snipt a bogus answer to a different question>