Bush: Turning phony crises into real crises.

[Redleg]

That will be my new bumper sticker. Iraq WMDs was a phony crisis, Bush invaded Iraq and now it's a real crisis. Social Security is a phony crisis, Bush will partially privatize it and create a real crisis.

[w4rma]

1. Needs to be more specific, imho. Target the issue and name it.

Now is not the time for tact especially when so many folks are told things that are not true whatsoever and therefore have their logic facilities out of whack.

[Redleg]

3. Yeah, but that's too much to put on a bumper sticker.

I want my sticker to be a bit mysterious.

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Like this vanity plate I saw last year:

"MRE2ME"

Took three blocks to figure it out

[Redleg]

9. I don't get it. Let me get into my car and drive three blocks.

LOL

[JohnnyRingo]

15. Good one....Heh heh

I started to get it when I saw "MR"

[Redleg]

18. I get it! I get it!

A day late and a dollar short, but I get it!

[w4rma]

14. Mysterious? There is too much confusion around already.

Need to be as blunt and plain and precise as possible until the government (and/or the big biz that might employ you) requires mysterious in order to keep issues alive among those who understand.

[Eric J in MN]

5. Good point. Spell it out. Something like

Bush used fear for Iraq War, Bush uses fear for Social Security.

Unless that's too long for a bumper sticker, in which case you could just say:

"Tell Bush Hands-Off Our Social Security"

[Eric J in MN]

2. A recent Minneapolis Start Tribune editorial

compared Bush' fearmongering on Iraq with his fearmongering on Social Security:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/5140965.html

Editorial: Social Security/Bush's radical, wrong path
December 17, 2004 ED1217


Anyone who remembers the way President Bush talked about Iraq three years ago had to feel a creepy sense of déjà vu listening to the Bush administration talk about Social Security this week. There is the same panicky rhetoric about a problem that, in the view of most outside experts, is sobering but fully manageable, and is certainly not a "crisis" that requires immediate and radical action.

There are broad hints from the administration of a "solution" that, on closer examination, really has nothing to do with the problem. And there is a growing sense that the president already has latched onto a radical agenda and will push it through Congress regardless of the facts on the ground or the views of voters and impartial experts.

The difference is that this time Congress can stand up to the president, avert another disaster and just say no.

In fact, it's already happening. Two respected Republican senators, Lindsay Graham of South Carolina and Charles Grassley of Iowa, said last week they're uncomfortable with the White House plan because it would pile as much as $2 trillion of additional borrowing onto the national debt in order to finance the transition to personal retirement accounts. They're right: Washington's priority today should be to reduce federal borrowing, not to increase it. AARP president William Novelli has pointed out correctly that there are much simpler, safer ways to correct the future financing gap in Social Security. He's right too. Just visit the Web site of the Brookings Institution or examine the work of Edward Gramlich, a member of President Bush's 2001 Commission on Social Security.

[Redleg]

4. Those bastards scooped me!

LOL

[Eric J in MN]

8. There was a Washington Post article by Jim VandeHei

which said Bush will be touring the country to drum up support for changing Social Security just as he toured the country to drum up support for the Iraq War.

I don't think Jim VandeHei was trying to make a negative comparison, but many people who think Bush misled us into Iraq felt we shouldn't let Bush scam us any more.

[Digit]

6. Time for another email campaign to our ELECTED officials?

It really would be a disaster if we let * get his hands on it, or try to change it in any way.

OMG-that was my 999th post!

[Eric J in MN]

10. Write them. And call them.

You can find information at:
www.vote-smart.org by typing your zipcode into the top-left corner.

Call their offices.

You can do this by dialing

1-800-839-5276

and saying, "Hello, can you connect me to Senator ____'s office?" or "Hello, can you connect me to Representative ____'s office?"

Then leave a message for the Senator or Congressmen: don't change Social Security; it's good the way it is.

[stopbush]

11. How about this for the religiously minded?:

"Bush - turning ploughshares into swords"

[Redleg]

19. Good one.

[Old and In the Way]

12. How about "Bush: Stop fixing things, you're killing us."

nt

[Redleg]

20. I like it!

[stopbush]

13. "Bush - Delivering the Disasters" n/t

[sam sarrha]

16. that moron has the fecal touch

..:thumbsdown:

[sam sarrha]

17. ssi will be solvent for 4o years..medicare will cost 28 trillion by then

he is trying to hide the medicare problem... he cant do anything about that and keep making the rich fithly richer..

[Nordic]

21. "King Midas in Reverse"

is my favorite description. Someone on DU coined that a while back.

That's what the GOP does best.

Right now they're riling up their base with the "liberals want to take your Christmas away from you" bullshit.

Complete fiction, as is everything else they come up with.

[Redleg]

22. I like to say Bush has the "Anus Touch" instead of the "Midas Touch."

People where I live think Bush is the greatest.