Reply #1: This is a great interview and deserves some excerpts. [View All]

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from the interview:

"what President Bush is going to do is to means test it , which on the face of it makes a lot of sense, except that it will lose the political support of the people who have the power and the influence in this country. . . . What happens is that if you means test this, and it's only the poorer people who have a vested interest in maintaining it, it won't be maintained. And I think that's what President Bush has in mind."

"You know, the only thing that is really fiscally solvent of any size in this country is the Social Security Trust Fund. It's not going bankrupt. Our country is going bankrupt."

Rendition is "only lawful because they make their own law. It's wrong, and you know, if any of President Bush's family, if either of his daughters were ever arrested in any of those countries, he would move heaven and earth to get them out of there, because he knows they do torture. Those prisons are inhumane hell holes."