SOTU Boos/Nos to SS Lies - Why Is the media NOT covering this NOR stating

[bpilgrim]

the recent Congressional Budget Office report that says bush is LYING!?

A conflicting Congressional Budget Office report released last June, using more realistic predictions, said that surpluses would persist until 2052, and in 75 years the financial trouble it would incur would be about half of what the Trustees predict. Further, when compared with the current federal debt (forty percent of GDP) amassed under Bush or the current foreign debt (five percent of GDP) propelled by "free trade" and outsourcing policies, the Social Security’s financial shortfall – 75 years from now – would account for an easily manageable 0.4 percent of the entire economy. The cost of Bush’s tax cuts alone over the same period of time, according to Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, will be about three times that amount.

source...
http://progressivetrail.org/articles/050127Wendland.shtml

see also...

By Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker

Six years ago the New York Times' Fred Brock wrote that "so-called Social Security reform is looking more and more like a solution in search of a problem." How true it was then, and even truer today. The latest (June 2004) estimate from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projects that Social Security can pay all promised benefits, with no changes at all, until 2052. That's nearly half a century.

more...
http://www.cepr.net/columns/baker_weisbrot/mark_weisbrot_dean_baker_1_23_05.htm

say NO/BOO to BUSH!
http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/bush/sotu-boos.mp3




BTW: is this - the REMARKABLE boos during SOTU - getting any play in your neck of the woods?

ah, times r a changin ;->

psst... pass the word :hi:

peace

[CoffeeCat]

1. CNN mentioned the boos...

they showed the boos too, and discussed the soc sec debate.

Then they went back to whoring for BushCo.

I guess we take our few seconds of truth when we get em, right?

[bpilgrim]

2. thats what i mean...

it was mentioned in passing on npr, too... but it didn't derail the fawning of the commentators over the so-called 'powerful' speech :crazy:

they got all caught up in the FEELINGs :crazy:

and here i thought pukes weren't into the touchy-feely stuff :evilgrin:

but the medias REFUSAL to deal with REALITY is maddening at times :argh:

:hi:

peace

[CoffeeCat]

3. I hear ya...

...like you said, the media won't deal with reality. It's very frustrating.

To add insult to injury--I listened to Limbaugh today and he droned on about "the liberal media" and how they just don't get it. He's still touting the moronic notion that the media is "liberal."

Oh please.

I guess anything short of the media reading Republican-authored copy--is "liberal" to rightwingnutjobs like Rush.

[intheflow]

4. Who was booing?

I couldn't bear to watch it, personally.

[bpilgrim]

5. another good question...

i haven't heard ANY of them identified, yet... but would LOVE to know myself so i can send them some encouragement and support ;->

BTW: you can listen to them here...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/bush/sotu-boos.mp3

peace

[global1]

6. How Could I Turn Those Boo's Into a Ringtone for MY New Cell Phone? n/t

[proud patriot]

7. 6 own 90% of all MEDIA

that's why

[bpilgrim]

8. Thank GORE he 'INVENTED' the INTERNET's!

;->

:hi: pp

peace

[oasis]

9. Al Franken calls Bush "dishonest" in his description of the state of SS.

[bpilgrim]

10. wait, wait... don't LIE to me! ;->

great game :hi:

peace

[mopaul]

11. When Clinton tried to improve SS, he was trounced...AND booed

some people remember

[DemonFighterLives]

12. Oh well, it wouldn't be lining the right pockets

Bushco and his inside traders need our money to gamble with.