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  • America's Choice: The prsident must now use his political capital shrewdly, by Michael Barone

    11/04/2004 5:39:01 AM PST · by OESY · 6 replies · 822+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | November 4, 2004 | MICHAEL BARONE
    ...Mr. Bush... has called... for personal retirement accounts in Social Security. His opponent John Kerry, the darling of the self-regarding intelligentsia, called for the brain-dead policy of no change in a Social Security regime that any sensible person understands is in the long run unsustainable. Mr. Bush wants something better. Mr. Bush has also called for an expansion of market-based health-care reforms like health savings accounts. And he has called, in exceedingly vague terms, for broad-based tax reforms, freeing up savings from taxes to encourage investment and wealth accumulation. ...Mr. Bush... has risked giving his policy proposals too little political...