I appeared on CNN with Lou Waters to discuss my then
newly published book, 'The Alleged Budget Surplus , Social Security, and Voodoo
Economics,' but I didn't make much progress with Waters.
There are no stocks or bonds or real estate in the trust fund."
The only major newspaper in which Smith found Walker's statement reported
was the San Francisco Chronicle.com
Website: http://www . "Denying women the option of vaginal birth after
cesarean is a major factor in our escalating national cesarean rate.org

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It has nothing
of real value to draw down .

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Reflecting back on his struggle to raise public awareness to the Social
Security fraud, Smith said, "My first opportunity to alert the American people
that their Social Security contributions were being spent by the government
came in September 2000. If this were done," Smith argues, "full benefits could be paid until
at least 2042." And Smith claims that, by removing the $90,000 cap on earnings
subject to payroll taxes , the government could complete the Social Security
fix. Policy
makers, health professionals and women themselves must confront factors
leading to avoidable cesareans," stated Maureen Corry, MPH , Executive
Director, Childbirth Connection. Just 12% of women
with a previous cesarean had a VBAC .

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If it had not been for the efforts of Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein," Smith continued, "I doubt that the full extent of the Watergate
scandal would have ever surfaced, and I think that the looting of Social
Security, because it involves both major political parties and extends over a
period of more than 20 years, is much more serious than Watergate in terms of
the harm it has inflicted on the American people.D. In
addition, nearly 10 percent of survey respondents reported feeling pressure
from a health professional to have a cesarean delivery, vastly outweighing
the pressure from mothers to have one.

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the news.

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On February 10, 2005, President Bush made the following statement about
the trust fund during a speech in Pennsylvania:
"Now, one of the myths about Social Security is there's a pile of money
sitting there accumulating, because you put money in, the government saves it
for you, and then when you retire you get it out. It's spent
on retirees , and if there's excess, it's spent on government programs.

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Smith said he thought Bush's admission that the trust fund has been looted
and that it does not hold any real assets would be the beginning of the
revelation of the great Social Security fraud that has been going on for two
decades and involves both the Democrats and the Republicans.com

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Mothers were asked to express their views about whether women's preferences
for a cesarean or vaginal birth should be honored. Of the remaining women who had a
repeat cesarean, 45% were interested in the option of VBAC , but more than
half (56%) of them were denied this option, primarily because their
caregiver (45%) or hospital (23%) was unwilling to do a VBAC.

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Bush's Words 'Every Dime That Goes in From Payroll Taxes is Spent ... if There's Excess it's Spent on Government Programs ' is an Admission of the Looting of

"Almost nobody seems to have
been looking out for the American people -- not the government, not the AARP,
and not even the nation's journalists. The trust fund gives a very false sense of
security about where we are and how much time we have. That's not the way the
system works.

PRESS RELEASE New National Survey Results From Mothers Refute Belief That Women Are Requesting Cesarean Sections Without Medical Reason

By contrast, most mothers who
had cesareans were poorly informed about specific
complications of cesarean section. This indicates that mothers do not
understand the degree to which legal,
financial, clinical and other factors are impacting their care.

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"Mothers have spoken: they are not electing to have cesareans without
medical reason.

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Smith is especially perplexed that so little news coverage has been given
to recent statements by the comptroller general of the GAO, and by President
Bush, which back up what Smith has been arguing for years. The survey was carried out in partnership
with Lamaze International and conducted
by Harris Interactive.

Childbirth Connection (formerly Maternity Center Association) is a national
not-for-profit organization that uses research, education and advocacy to
improve maternity care for all women and their families.

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And, while nearly three-quarters of mothers believed that they themselves
should make childbirth decisions after considering the advice of their
caregivers -- assuming there are no medical complications -- 42% believed
that the current malpractice environment leads providers to perform
cesarean sections that are not really needed to avoid being sued."

About
the Survey

The Listening to Mothers survey reached nearly 1,600 U.

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08%) of more than 1,300
surveyed who might have chosen an initial or "primary" cesarean without
medical reason did so, according to Listening to Mothers survey data
released today by Childbirth
Connection, a leading national not -for-profit organization that works
to improve the quality of maternity care for women and families .

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"
Smith contends that, "Most of the Social Security problem would disappear,
if the government would: (1) stop looting the trust fund; (2) repay the
$1. women 18-45 who
gave birth in a hospital to a single infant in 2005, with the infant still
living at the time of the survey.

Category Description for Deism

Deism has at minimum these attributes:

1.

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Smith, is
puzzled as to why President Bush's public acknowledgement that the Social
Security trust fund has been looted and holds only "a pile of IOUs" has
received so little news coverage. "I don't see how you could interpret it any other way," Smith said. I thought
the American people would now be able to see clearly that the only reason Bush
is pushing for Social Security reform is that he knows there is no money in
the trust fund. "The only question is how
long it will take for journalists who have been intimidated by the Bush
administration to overcome their fear of tackling politically explosive
stories.
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But it doesn't have any economic significance whatsoever. Smith, Ph.prnewswire. Virtually all who had primary cesareans believed there was
a valid medical reason for the surgery.

Belief in the existence of God, omnipotent Creator.

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Close to half of survey participants
(42% to 45%) were "not sure" about how to reply to four statements about
complications of cesareans, and 21% to 33 % responded incorrectly.

"Despite lots of talk about women's choice and cesarean section, the
Listening to Mothers survey clarifies that virtually no women are choosing
to have a first, or 'primary,' cesarean without medical reason, and many
women's choices about how to give birth after they have had a cesarean are
not being honored," said Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH, Director of Programs ,
Childbirth Connection.

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"We're not hearing any of this in the news," Waters said. Are you a voice crying in the wilderness? And if not, why haven't we
seen a presidential candidate, any presidential candidate, talk about this?"
Smith's attempt to convince the public that their Social Security
contributions have not been invested in marketable Treasury bonds, as the
supporters of the 1983 payroll tax increase intended, but instead have been
looted and spent on other programs, has been an uphill battle.6 trillion that it has already looted; and (3) invest the money in real
assets.

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WINTER HAVEN, Fla. How could he not know? He looted $509 billion from the trust
fund during his first term, and he is continuing to spend approximately
$400 million of surplus Social Security money each and every day. "The American
people are going to become very angry when they finally realize that they have
been ripped off by their government," Smith said. For up-to-date
evidence-based maternity care information and resources for women and
health professionals, visit www.

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, Economist , Allen W. He points out that
on January 21, 2005 Comptroller General David Walker of the GAO made the
following statement during a presentation in Washington:
"The left hand owes the right hand, and that has legal, political and
moral significance.S.

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When I tried to
convince him that the alleged budget surplus was almost all Social Security
money, and told him that the government was misusing Social Security money by
spending it on other programs, he reacted with disbelief. "It is almost
beyond belief that for more than 20 years the United States government has
successfully hoodwinked almost all Americans into believing that their Social
Security contributions were being saved and invested when the government was
actually spending every dime," Dr."
Smith considers this statement an admission by the President of The United
States that all Social Security surplus money has been spent and that
President Bush is continuing to spend Social Security money each and every
day. Smith (863) 206-4292
email: ironwoodas@aol.lootingsocialsecurity.

2.

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Smith , the author of 'The Looting of Social
Security: How the Government is Draining America's Retirement Account,' has
been trying to make that very point for the past five years.
Only one woman (0.

Eighty-one percent of mothers stated that before consenting to a cesarean
section, it is necessary to know every possible complication, and 17%
felt it necessary to know most complications .

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"The
president was verifying everything I have been saying for the past five years,
and I was sure that the president's acknowledgement would make the Social
Security trust fund fraud the leading news story the following day."

CONTACT: Barbara Rugel (863) 206-4431 or Allen W.

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Smith said. The
only thing that Social Security has is a pile of IOUs from one part of
government to the next. Eighty-five percent
agreed that a woman with a previous cesarean should be able to have a vaginal
birth after cesarean (VBAC) if she wants one, and only 5% disagreed.

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Every dime that goes in from payroll taxes is spent.

However, the survey found that last year most women with a previous
cesarean had no recourse but surgery for giving birth.