[quote=“fred smith”]…Sorry believe it or not but busy today. Will try to get to your … questions later.
…All the best,
Fred[/quote]
Sure, of course, take your time, fred smith, by all means.
Please try to focus on, to begin with, this transition period, between SS now and SS then, to begin with, ok?
:fatchance:
Ahem.
[quote=“blueface666”]Well, I guess we know who the Dear Leader prefers…
news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServe … 2571727088[/quote]
Which just goes to show that Dear Leader is truly nuts, imo, because all indications are that this wacko is winning the jawbone war with Bush at present.
[quote=“Washington Post”]Bush Signals Patience on North Korea Is Waning
Directive Sent to Team At Talks in Beijing
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 4, 2004; Page A14
After a Chinese request for greater flexibility during last week’s six-nation talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis, President Bush instructed the U.S. delegation to make it clear that the administration’s patience in diplomatically seeking North Korea’s dismantling of its weapons program could run out, U.S. officials said.
The instructions, delivered as a third day of talks began last Friday in Beijing, came as the negotiators at the talks struggled to draft a detailed, two-page statement laying out the steps for resolving the crisis. Bush, after consultation with Vice President Cheney and other senior aides, sent the curt directive after China sought to include in the statement a reference to North Korea’s demand that the United States change its “hostile policy.”
[…]
For months, Bush had said publicly he had no intention of attacking North Korea. Now, according to U.S. officials speaking on the condition of anonymity, Bush instructed the delegation to say the administration’s continued support of the six-party process rested on North Korea’s commitment to completely, verifiably and irreversibly dismantle its programs. In diplomatic terms, the message was not subtle: The administration’s goodwill could run out, and all options were still on the table.
China realized it would not be able to win agreement on a detailed statement, and instead work began on a joint declaration calling for the goal of a nuclear-free Korean peninsula and efforts to hold regular talks. But after Chinese officials suggested the United States would be isolated because North Korea appeared ready to agree to the statement – and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell received Bush’s approval to scale back the U.S. goals – Pyongyang pulled its own surprise, officials said.
On Saturday, the North Koreans sought language asserting there were significant differences between the United States and North Korea, and that the other nations at the table would work to narrow them. The United States and other countries found that unacceptable. Without an agreement, China was forced to issue the statement in its own name.
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar … 4Mar3.html[/quote]
Cheney gets in Bush’s ear, out goes an “or else” to Dear Leader, Powell weighs in and reminds Bush that hey, or else doesn’t mean squat unless you can delineate “or else what,” and Bush folds holding a straight flush to Dear Leader’s Chinese pair. Nice.
Investigations underway FREDSTER!
‘Spirit of America’?
Ashcroft’s rhetoric is truly beyond the pale…
For a basic intro to chile’s privatization of social security start with…
Before moving to…
cato.org/pubs/journal/cj15n2-3-1.html
Before going to the AARP’s view
research.aarp.org/econ/ib23_chile.html
Finally…
socialsecurity.org/pubs/test … 80295.html
Now, once you have digested all of this, let me know and we can move on to discussing whether you think that it could work in a much larger nation such as the US but look at the situation in Chile as presented in these articles and carefully digest the arguments and how they actually turned out, etc. then let me know.