Reply #49: While all of those are certainly factors, they are peripheral,

[mattclearing]

with the exception of the revenue stream thing.

I'm convinced the Bushes mainly want to loot. The Iraq war is a great excuse to loot the Treasury out to defense contractor friends like Halliburton.

The Social Security Privatization is a great way to borrow money for the Government and then loot it out of the stock market through insitutional investors skimming the SS investment out of the market again.

The tax cut is a great example of this...simple wealth redistribution...away from the government and back to the wealthy.

Most of their policy initiatives come back to this.