Great Interview with Boxer on NPR last night...

[The Doctor.]

I couldn't believe what I was hearing, apparently Boxer has memos written by the neo-con about wanting to get rid of social security for DECADES.

Terri Gross;

“One of the biggest issues you’ll be facing on capitol hill is the future of social security. Umm, I understand that you have a memo, a paper that you want to produce into senate discussion. Tell us what you plan to do”

Senator Boxer;

“There are two papers that I want to introduce into senate discussion. One of them is a white house memo that was leaked and has a very clear statement and that clear statement is that for six decades they’ve been trying to get rid of social security and finally they have their opportunity. Umm, and I can give you the exact quote I have it in front of me. This was written Jan 3rd 2005 by one of Karl Rove’s assistants, “for the first time in six decades”, he writes, “the social security battle is one we can win.”

Now let’s just analyze that, that’s sixty years, so it’s right out there. For sixty years they’ve been trying to do away with social security.

And then The other document is a 1983 paper that was put out by a very right-wing think tank and it was called ‘Achieving a Leninist strategy’ and they talk about the strategy that this tyrant communist Lenin used to overturn capitalism. And um, this is one of the quotes in there, “unlike many other socialists at the time Lenin recognized that fundamental change is contingent both upon a movement’s ability to create a focused political coalition and upon it’s success in isolating and weakening it’s opponents.”
And in that paper, it essentially says that you have to buy off the people who are older, tell them they’re going to be ok, and essentially, everything they suggest, the President’s doing.
For example, this is what they said, “the sign {sounds like ‘a kwa-non’) of any successful social security reform strategy must be an assurance to those already retired or nearing retirement that their benefits will be paid in full. By accepting this principle we may succeed in neutralizing the most powerful element of the coalition that opposes structural reform.”

Now that was written in 1983 by this right wing think tank.”

-She then goes on to quote Bush’s SOTU where he says that ‘none of you old folks have to worry’.

It was an interesting interview.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4493675

Boxer even points out that in 1978 congressional candidate Bush said that "social security is going bankrupt by 1988 if we don't do private accounts now."

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Thanks for Posting! I LOVE B2

Props to you :toast:

[zann725]

2. These people are SOOO scarey...and heartless.

History books will certainly write about this, but clearly NOT the way Shrub (and Shrubco) would like.