LOL - SO WHAT is the Bush plan for raising the life expectancy of African-Americans, so they get a better deal with retirement/Social Security?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-social26jan26,1,4368201.story?coll=la-headlines-nation THE NATION
Bush Shifts Focus to Race in Debate on Social Security
By Peter Wallsten and Richard Simon
Times Staff Writers
January 26, 2005
WASHINGTON — Race became a significant factor in the debate over Social Security on Tuesday as President Bush told African American leaders that the government retirement program shortchanged blacks, whose relatively shorter lifespan meant that they paid more in payroll taxes than they eventually received in benefits.
Bush's comments came during a private White House meeting with 22 black religious and business leaders who backed his reelection last year — marking a new line of argument in his attempts to win support for adding worker-owned investment accounts to Social Security.
The conversation demonstrated the White House's determination to build on outreach efforts to blacks that proved effective in battleground states last year, adding Social Security to issues — such as opposition to same-sex marriage and support for faith-based social programs — that Republicans believe can provide common ground with black conservatives.
White House officials did not release a transcript of the hourlong meeting, but several participants said Bush was adamant that his Social Security plan had special appeal to blacks — and that he intended to make that point in public. <snip>