Letter: Drinking and smoking

Editor, Daily News:

Normally I don't "waste" a letter responding to those commenting on my letters, but Robert Fulton, drunk on Democrat National Committee Kool-Aid, bears an answer because he actually proved my point!

Towing the Democrat line, he indicates it is better to do "nothing" about Social Security (and let the system go bankrupt) than accept anything President Bush might propose, even if it is voluntary.

Robert, just so you understand, that means one can choose to do nothing and remain in the lousy present system if you want to. And, only one-tenth was to be privatized.

But if Bush suggests it, it must be bad. Let the grandchildren go without any benefits.

Facts have never bothered the Democrats, so they now claim there was a budget surplus. If only that were true. There never was any surplus, only a projection of one and that was before 9/11 and was due, not to Bill Clinton, but to those who held the purse strings — the Republicans controlled the House of Representatives.

Perhaps you forget Clinton's adamant statements that the budget could not be balanced until some eight years after he left office.

But, I don't drink Republican Kool-Aid either. I decry the present spending that gives even "drunken sailors" a bad name.

However, if Robert suggests a Democrat Congress would spend less, he is not only drinking, he is smoking wacky weed.

D.A. Baumgartner Jr. , Naples