[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

South Africa is planning to create a welfare state where EVERYONE aged 7 to 65 gets benefits.

Yes, EVERYONE! Granted it is only $10/month, it is still the totality of the population (7 to 65) getting $10/month.

How will it be financed? Through "slightly higher taxes on the middle class and affluent."

Also, there will be no bureaucracy - they simply will hand out the checks. But note the floor on the age range. Want to make a bet this promotes all kinds of sexual behavior? In a country that has one of the highest rates of AIDS infection in the world! This is an astonishing policy.

South Africa Weighs a Welfare State - System of Payment for All Would Be Continent's First

[Molly Pitcher]

Madness! Sheer madness!

The Pres will be on Fox News shortly handing out Medal of Freedom awards to the likes of Hank Aaron, Nancy Reagan...

[Molly Pitcher]

Ugh! One goes to Katherine Graham ?, posthumously...

Chairman, yes please check with Mrs. C, .after all, you DO have to eat lunch that last day of your trip, and I'm game for just about anything!

[Dog]

Mail call sir!

[Dog]

I saw a short clip on Fox about a video from the AC-130 surfacing taken the night of the attack on the "wedding party"..

[Utah Girl]

I have a friend who is stationed in Johannesburg, South Africa for the State Dept. He and his wife and family have been there for two years, he was just transferred to Hong Kong. He says he was never so happy to leave a country as when they flew out of SA. So corrupt and so dangerous. The apartment complex they lived in was surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards, 24/7. His wife couldn't go out by herself or even with the kids in the car, there are too many carjackings, and the carjackers usually beat, rape, and then kill the victims. Horrible place to be right now.