--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About as appealing as becoming a Raja or Raj-ette and running a peace palace > in a strip mall. > > Social Security Participants Given Wide Choice of Iraqi Cities to Patrol > After receiving only muted support for his sweeping proposals to overhaul > Social Security, President George W. Bush attempted to sweeten the pot > today, offering all retirees the opportunity to serve in Iraq. > > With most insiders calling the president's proposal for individual > investment accounts dead on arrival in Congress, the White House hopes that > Mr. Bush's offer of guaranteed military service to all retired Americans > will find more favor. > > Speaking at a rally in Detroit today, the president told his audience, "In > the year 2054, the Social Security trust fund will be bankrupt, but the war > in Iraq will be alive and well." > > Under his new plan, the president said, upon reaching the age of 59 every > participant in the Social Security program would be offered the opportunity > to begin basic training for what Mr. Bush called "the adventure of their > lives." > > According to the president, retirees would be "totally free to choose" which > Iraqi city they would like to patrol from a list of twenty cities including > Baghdad, Tikrit, Fallujah, and oil-rich Kirkuk. > > Mr. Bush added that the average retiree serving in Iraq would earn > approximately $1500 a month, which would be boosted to $1800 if the retiree > should somehow stumble across weapons of mass destruction. > > In Washington, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said he was > "intrigued" by the notion of spending his retirement years in Iraq but that > he had decided to run the World Bank instead. > > Elsewhere, antiwar protesters across Europe marked the second anniversary of > President Bush ignoring antiwar protesters across Europe.
This is brilliant! If the retirees survive, they pay for themselves; if the die, they make a permanent deduction of the deficit whilst giving any surviving family honor. Best of all, in fours years we can look fwd to Baby-G himself patrolling Falluja! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
