Latest Social Security e-mail from There IsNoCrisis.Com

[Coastie for Truth]

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Today's talking point is a special budget edition. In case you haven't heard, the recently released Bush budget is basically a fraud. Despite the gaping $400 plus billion deficit, the budget doesn't even include the costs of Social Security privatization, Iraq or making the tax cut permanent, or fixing the Alternative Minimum tax. It's more fantasy than reality, and his calls for sacrifice are simply cons.

What does this have to do with Social Security? Well, the general thrust of the Republican argument that Social Security is in crisis is that the 'trust fund' doesn't really have anything in it because it's just a bunch of government bonds. While Social Security is perfectly healthy if government finances are healthy, if the fiscal situation is dire, then those bonds really aren't worth as much. Therefore, by manufacturing a crisis in the general budget through fraud and mismanagement, right-wingers are also putting at risk Social Security, the military, domestic spending - well everything with a the full faith and credit of the United States attached to it.

So here's the talking point:

The real problem is not Social Security, but an immediate and consistent pattern of Republican budget fraud. Whether it's saying that the prescription drug plan will cost $400 billion when it really costs $1.2 trillion dollars, not including the costs of war in our budgetary process, and lying about what we will need to borrow, the Republicans are adding debt and rattling those who lend to us. This is slowing the American economy, and ensuring lower living standards, high taxes, a smaller army, and no Social Security or Medicare. If you bankrupt the country, as the Republicans are doing right now without even touching Social Security, then everything in the country will be bankrupt.

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[papau]

1. true :-)

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