Facts, facts, facts...

It appears that Factcheck.org went after some social security ads placed by Moveon.org.

I'm not sure I understand Factcheck's arguments this morning. They say that our purchasing power will remain stable, despite our benefit amounts being cut relative to the current social security plan. I'm wondering how they can predict purchasing power so well. I suppose you could allow for an average inflation increase.

However, perhaps it's not so much the benefit cuts that are at issue here, but the fact that it will cost us trillions to convert the system.

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Today has been busy, yet slow. I had to go to our legal counsel office down the road to troubleshoot a scanner problem. Real strange stuff, that. The scanner software hits an error when you try to scan handwritten documents over 6 pages. But it will take typewritten docs till the cows come home. Both are saved as .pdf files. I'm not sure what the disconnect is there.

Anyway, it looks like I'll be out for dinner with coworkers tonight, and then home for whatever I wish.

This just in. My coworker is so good at being a straight-man. He play a joke on you and keep a straight face for as long as it takes. He did this with a coworker of ours in another office. He called and told him one of our high profile systems was down and the guy on the other end believed him, and was ready to round up the troops to address the problem. And the rest of us fell for it, too. So I evened the score by unleasing an upside down can of compressed air on his hind-quarters. He now has Frosted Blue Dockers.

I was hoping to shock him, but all he did was giggle like a little girl. Assuming a little girl looked like a 50 year old man.

Before I get back to work...

Here's an article on the Social Security Privatization. It explains how basing the benefits on purchasing power will work:

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Here's something us young folks can get with all that supposed increased Social Security Benefits

...that Bush's new program will get us!

A wooden gargoyle statue!