Brian: I only wish Bush truly would take apart Social Security. All of it. It is a relic of Big Government and has no place in a free society. Eric: Please tell me you're joking. Or that you have overlooked that part of the preamble to the Constitution that expects government to "promote the general welfare." Or that you envision a better alternative to SS, and don't intend to support a policy that might cause hundreds of thousands of old people to die of penury and leave their rotting corpses fester in the streets. Do you really support massive social cruelty in the name of a specious and undefined concept like "freedom," or are you trying to be provocative? Please tell me where you are coming from with this statement. Best, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html