Much of President's Address to Focus on Social Security

[papau]

"on the President's "welcoming" of ideas about how to deal with Social Security benefits as he lays out specifics only about the types of investments he'd like people to be able to make" LOL :-)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/politics/02bush.html?oref=login

February 2, 2005
Much of President's Address to Focus on Social Security
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON

ASHINGTON, Feb. 1 - President Bush will use his State of the Union address on Wednesday night to begin setting out details of his plan for overhauling Social Security, but will stick largely to generalities when it comes to the politically painful subject of cuts in benefits, administration officials and Republicans who have been briefed on the speech said Tuesday.

The White House said Mr. Bush's speech would be split roughly equally between foreign policy and domestic issues. The big themes, officials said, would be how to build on the successes of the democratic elections in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories and Iraq, and the need to modernize domestic programs, foremost among them Social Security.

Speaking three days after millions of Iraqis went to the polls, Mr. Bush will not set out a plan to bring home American troops, but will emphasize the importance of completing the job of training Iraqi security forces to take on primary responsibility for battling the insurgency there, officials said.

The administration plans to follow up the State of the Union address with a new budget proposal on Monday that will provide more specifics and is expected to hold spending increases on discretionary domestic programs to less than 1 percent. <snip>

[ladjf]

1. The SS scam, if passed, will go down as the greatest

financial swindle in history. Trillions of dollars will be siphoned from the middle and low income workers and given to the people that
handle the funds on Wall Street, brokerage type fees, trillions!
Also this scheme is a cover up for the fact that to continue to cover the tax cuts for the rich by taking from SS, Bush needs a smoke screen, claiming that the problem is with the SS system itself.

America, as far as I can tell, has become the stupidest country in the industrialized world. Is there no end to our gullibility?

[melissinha]

2. If he wastes his time ..

he'll look stupid, cause Reid said its not gonna happen.

So suck on it, Emperor Bush.