You have to stay vigilant
Bush's old plan to privatize Social Security was so obviously a bad idea, that even Congressional Republicans who have been dutifully doing everything they've been told to do by the White House's political wing, could not support the plan. They felt that destroying Social Security, rather than fixing it to remain solvent long into the future, would have too great a backlash.
Well, despite the overwhelming will of the American people against this bad plan to raid our future, dubya and his handlers are stealthily trying to get this passed. Presumably they think that with all the distractions going on, the American public won't notice. Granted, there are a lot of distractions - the disastrous war for oil instead of going after the terrorists that attacked us, the horrible effect dubyanomics has had on employment, the economy and the trade deficit, the abysmal budget deficit causing debt for generations of Americans to come, the inflated cost of gas to support world-record setting profits for his oil buds, oh I could keep going but you know that story already.
Anyway, Bush is getting back to his political roots. When he first ran for Congress in Texas, he advocated the complete abolition of Social Security. Screw the people, just destroy this masterpiece that helped lift America out of the Great Depression.
In his speech to the Manhattan Institute in New York, he vowed to succeed in his assault on Social Security before he leaves office. He vowed to try to pass it this year, and if the public continues to want Social Security to remain, he'll try again the next year. Damn the will of the people. Damn the future of the people. There's a coffer to be raided!
You can't relax around such single-minded agenda-driven "leaders". As a populace, we must remain vigilant against such actions. Once again, we must, in overwhelming numbers, yell out that we do not want Social Security to be raided and privatized. We want it to be there for all Americans when it's needed. Please yell with me...
(political cartoon credit to Tom Toles. IMHO, the best of the best.)
Well, despite the overwhelming will of the American people against this bad plan to raid our future, dubya and his handlers are stealthily trying to get this passed. Presumably they think that with all the distractions going on, the American public won't notice. Granted, there are a lot of distractions - the disastrous war for oil instead of going after the terrorists that attacked us, the horrible effect dubyanomics has had on employment, the economy and the trade deficit, the abysmal budget deficit causing debt for generations of Americans to come, the inflated cost of gas to support world-record setting profits for his oil buds, oh I could keep going but you know that story already.
Anyway, Bush is getting back to his political roots. When he first ran for Congress in Texas, he advocated the complete abolition of Social Security. Screw the people, just destroy this masterpiece that helped lift America out of the Great Depression.
In his speech to the Manhattan Institute in New York, he vowed to succeed in his assault on Social Security before he leaves office. He vowed to try to pass it this year, and if the public continues to want Social Security to remain, he'll try again the next year. Damn the will of the people. Damn the future of the people. There's a coffer to be raided!
You can't relax around such single-minded agenda-driven "leaders". As a populace, we must remain vigilant against such actions. Once again, we must, in overwhelming numbers, yell out that we do not want Social Security to be raided and privatized. We want it to be there for all Americans when it's needed. Please yell with me...(political cartoon credit to Tom Toles. IMHO, the best of the best.)
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