Social Security will be back on the front burner

[annabanana]

after the recess. They are renaming and repositioning privatized accounts as we speak. So... for those of you who want to know what his plans are, here is a verbatim acount of his explanations:


WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: I don't really understand. How is the new plan going to fix the problem?

Verbatim response:

PRESIDENT BUSH:
"Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of
muddled.

Look, there's a series of things that cause the --like, for
example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise based upon inflation, supposed to wage increases.

There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help on the red."

-end quote-

(aside - they can fix this in marketing, right?)

[Skidmore]

1. Good.. should help to

piss some more people off. W--the equal opportunity destroyer--sowing seeds of destruction at home and abroad.

[Al-CIAda]

2. If the Dems do not fight this looting with 'every fiber of their being',

it is more than over for them, it is over for the social contract -the fundamental reason for even participating in society. They are allowing the American worker to be enslaved, abused, and now tossed away like garbage -all for the corporation.

Welcome to fascism.

[Stirk]

3. HOORAY!!!

The idiot just doesn't learn. He's incapable of backing off. If I'm not mistaken, it was during his last big push for "Social Security Reform" that the numbers of people who say he's untrustworthy really started going up.

His Social Security scam is very unpopular. People see it for the cash grab that it is, and they're alot more willing to call a liar a liar when it affects their pocketbook directly.

He can just keep on riding this issue right into the ground for all I care. Ride it right into 2006, Georgie.

[H5N1]

6. He wants it all. Every evil crumb.

He is one sick fkkk.

[kbm8795]

4. Exactly. .. .

like a typical dictator, this Prez will try to shove this down our throats without regard for the fact that the public has made it quite clear it doesn't trust him to come up with a decent plan.

Another nail in the coffin of Republicans. And I don't care if a Repub or Demo votes for a Bush plan on this issue - if they do, I'll walk my butt off campaigning against them in 2006. As it is, my Demo congressman is on the firing line over his vote for the Schiavo special rights legislation. And while he's been popular here, he knows there are Democrats who are none too pleased about that and we have very long memories.

[Sapphire Blue]

5. Get Ready: Social Security Privatization Push is Coming in September

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=106&topic_id=20746