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you consider the alternatives? And don’t forget, for all be a few of those 40 years the U.S. Congress was controlled by the Democrats — fine, loyal, clear-headed Democrats (some of them) who saw the threat and knew what had to be done just as the Republicans did.

So why now blame the Republicans for the cost of the insurance which in a very real way saved the world for all of us? Having paid for insurance on your house for 40 years do you regret that your house did not burn down so that you could have gotten something back on your investment? In fact haven’t we all seen a dramatic “profit" on our investment just this past year as we watched the Soviet-East Europe house start to fall down? Cannot we now breath a little easier even as we look to a new madman in Iraq and wonder at the damage he will do before he is stopped?

And now about Social Security, which Mr. Bird says has shown a profit. Why has it? Because we all paid Social Security our taxes every

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