from now I will retire, and I have no idea what my defined-contribution plan will be worth.  In the last 4 years only one kind of investment did well for me: lousy CDs in the bank.  Lousy interest, but positive!  Why, after taxes the interest was nearly as high as inflation.

Perhaps after Bush stocks will do better, perhaps not.  I really need Social Security to be there if anything else fails.  This is what insurance is for.

In any case, when asked where he will find a trillion to pay for his plan, Bush neither confirmed nor denied that it will cost so much, but blathered something about cost of inaction being yet higher -- how much?  what time frame?

This revamping of the tax code is another mystery that is a total disgrace for an incumbent.

"Vote for Bush.  He wants our children to know how to add and subtract.  He does not."