Slate - SS Bush, Screw Your Grandchildren....

[Kosmos Mariner]

Bush to Geezers: Save Yourselves!
On Social Security, the president says to throw the kids overboard.
By Chris Suellentrop
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005, at 9:32 PM PT

In his State of the Union address, President Bush claimed, for the first time during his presidency, to be asking Americans to sacrifice. The man who told the country, and the government, that the patriotic way to respond to 9/11 was to spend lots of money now says he wants the nation to be more penurious. Think of the children, Bush said, "on issue after issue," but especially with regard to Social Security. The president painted his plan to alter the Social Security system as a grand bargain in which the current generation of older Americans, like parents saving for their children's college tuition, would forgo some small benefit so that the next generation could reap huge rewards.

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http://www.slate.com/id/2113055/


We have to do whatever we can to defeat this. The GOP is doing everything they can to return us to the Gilded Age. :mad: :mad:


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