Very good points, GUEST, petr... Yeah, according to recent articles in the Washington Post, Bush;s plan will almost insure that the folks at the lower end of the earnings scale will indeed diem uch the way their great, great grand-parents did: in abject poverty...

Welcome to George Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism" whcih loosly translates to, ahhhhhh, "If you didn't want to die in poverty you should have picked rich parents".....

Bobert