Bush Lauds Social Security's 70th Birthday

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President Bush used the 70th anniversary of Social Security on Sunday to reaffirm his commitment to revamp the system to meet the needs of future generations.

"For 70 years, Social Security has been a vital program and helped millions of America's seniors in retirement," he said in a statement issued from his ranch.

"The Social Security system is sound for today's seniors, but there is a hole in the safety net for younger workers," the president said. "On this 70th anniversary, we renew our commitment to save and strengthen Social Security for our children and grandchildren, and keep the promise of Social Security for future generations."

With a fight brewing for this fall, Bush has yet to build a groundswell for his proposals to shift a portion of Social Security payroll taxes to individual accounts for younger workers and to address looming gaps in the government retirement program by trimming future benefits for high and middle-income earners.

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[Starfury]

1. Guess it's time for Bush to step on the 3rd rail again....n/t

[Patchuli]

2. Funny thing is

he really believes that we believe his bullshit. "Trimming benefits" for middle-class workers who have paid in all their lives.

Oh yeah, that'll step up his popularity in the polls, huh? Whatta dork.

[sniffa]

3. it's time to remove SS's feeding tube

[struggle4progress]

13. "Soylent Green: A plan to reduce and offset Social Security costs"

[HockeyMom]

4. Bush want to DESTROY Social Security

and make the Rich and Wall Street Brokers RICHER. That is not my quote, though I agree with it, but both my two daughters (21 and 26 years old).

[nookiemonster]

7. Indeed.

That's the plan.

[struggle4progress]

5. "Happy birthday! I asked Dr Kevorkian to bake you this nice cake." eom

[Coventina]

6. I was going to post, "Happy B-day! Now DIE!"

Ya beat me to it!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

8. OH,, look at Georgie again

Little Lord Dress Up! A little early for trick-or-treat? Mission accomplished - not.

[PurityOfEssence]

9. "I care", the hollow refrain of the Frat Boy

People are just prey to true conservatives. Social Security is a true representation of pluralism: it accommodates the reality of humanity. Many people don't plan for the future, and many who do get screwed and wind up in trouble. Social Security provides a safety net that benefits us all, because individual failure hurts everyone.

There are many rich people who understand and care: they got to be rich by understanding the human condition, or stayed rich because they did. Sadly, there are also the assholes, both of inherited and earned wealth. They see the need for others to fail as a part of their success. Not only mean, they're wrong: wealth can only be accumulated and sustained in a stable society, and to mandate the failure of many is to bring forth massive instability.

This little boy (Junior, the most powerful nobody since Louis the Sixteenth) has many grudges, but among them is a desire to get approval from the truly evil reactionaries who propelled him to power. This will be had from destroying all social programs, all regulations and laws constraining corporations and the frightening legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Social Security also ties up monies that could be plundered by rapacious greedheads in the investment world, so this is being pursued even when Junior is beset by many other problems.

It's nothing less than looting: loot the past by not sustaining the infrastructure by "starving the beast" with reduced revenue, and loot the future by saddling our children with horrendous debt. The monies are to be selfishly guarded and sent into the vortex of Wall Street. Since fraud is the ultimate sport there--in absence of regulation--little people are merely the krill of the rich.

Meanwhile, the stable society brought about by reasonable wages and regulation of investments is plundered by the short-term greedheads, and as the greedy amass, so many will fail that it will wreak havoc.

Class warfare? Why do THEY keep fighting it? They do because they think it benefits them; it does if they don't create so many desperate people that the whole thing collapses, but that's just not the way of the truly greedy.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. And at 70 years old he thinks it's outlived its usefulness

[Ernesto]

11. The idiot just handed the Dems plenty of great ammo for the '06 elections

What a great mind! On the other hand, don't count KKKarl out for perhaps trying to divert the heat away from his own treasonous ass.

[ngGale]

12. Right, his commitment to destroy ...

what's left of Social Security. FDR and the "New Deal" have been in the scope of the right for years. This administration has done wonders moving against what they call, "the welfare state."