Santorum Jeered At First Social Security Event

[EC]

Feb 22, 2005

Santorum Jeered At First Social Security Event
Death of a Sales Pitch Week

Washington, D.C. – Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum was met with 'boos and catcalls' by residents during his first two stops of his "10-stop tour" pitching President George W. Bush's scheme to overhaul Social Security. Most of the jeers were from voters skeptical of Bush's plan to cut guaranteed benefits while borrowing trillions of dollars from foreign governments to pay for his privatization scheme.

BOOS AND CATCALLS BACK HOME
"Minutes into Santorum's first presentation at Duquesne University, jeers and skeptical questioning arose from a considerable segment of the crowd.

"At one point, when he showed charts illustrating the causes of the nation's rising deficits and referred to discretionary spending on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as one-time costs, audience members responded loudly with boos and catcalls.

"Many expressed deep opposition to the personal-accounts proposal, noting their own stock market losses in recent years and their opposition to the cost of creating such accounts — $754 billion over 10 years, which could rise to as much as $2 trillion in later years, by some estimates."


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[caligirl]

1. and he'll get more jeers and catcalls here too!POS Santorum is.

[donco6]

2. Watch for a sudden "illness" to lead to cancellation . . .

. . . of future meetings.

Heartening to hear that when faced with open audiences rather than handpicked shills, people can still speak their mind. Maybe there's still hope for this country.

[Skittles]

6. yup

it's what happens to these fascists without their hand-picked audiences to cheer them on

[GetTheRightVote]

3. Glad to see there are sensible citizens in the Penn State

:kick:

[ohtransplant]

4. I was in Pittsburgh this past weekend

and this isn't how the local media portrayed the exchange. They gave the impression the audience was sharply divided and evenly split between supporters and detractors. They played brief clips of a supporter and a detractor.

[EC]

5. I thought I copied the newspaper it was in

here, is this one a reputable publication or no? : So I guess you'll have to figure out which one is less biased. I don't know I don't live in PA, so I don't know which way the news leans there..

[rodeodance]

7. love to see articles like this -thanks

[bunkerbuster1]

8. IOW, the sort of reception * would get if he didn't demand an oath.

This is what real life looks like, folks.

dissent, catcalls, anger, getting called on your BS.

[Sugarcoated]

9. I'm a Philly Pennsylvanian

so I don't have a clue to how things are being presented in upstate PA, but let me add my BOOOOOOOOO to that nutjob Sanitarium and the whackjob GREEDocracy he supports. God, I hope Casey beats him like a filthy dirty rug on clothes line.

[struggle4progress]

10. kick