he latest Gore scandal involves no cover-up, phone calls, or foreigners; his campaign announced it openly: The Vice President doesn't invest in the American economy. Republicans had accused Gore of holding stocks, while opposing Governor Bush's plan to permit workers to invest a modest portion of their Social Security taxes in the market if they so choose. The Gore camp explains that only a family trust, which the Vice President doesn't control, owns stocks. Putting aside the fact that his failure to enjoy the market's recent returns makes Al Gore an imbecile who shouldn't be trusted with the nation's economy, it's hard to imagine that we have a Vice President with such little faith in American businesses and workers. No wonder he has no understanding of the country's 80-million-strong investor class. Al Gore's lack of shame grows, even if his portfolio doesn't — he boasts about American prosperity, when he doesn't see fit to invest in it.