Reply #10: The "Crisis" Is BUSH [View All]

[nodictators]

First, the Social Security Trustees' Full Report (on the SS web site) has a bunch of simplistic assumptions that promote the "crisis" claim. The Trustees are mostly Repubs, including Snow and Chou.

Can anyone believe illegal immigration will stay constant? The Trustees do!

Can anyone believe, given our skyrocketing medical care prices and Medicare premiums, that seniors turning 65 in 2080, will have a life expectancy 4 years longer than seniors turning 65 this year? The Trustees do!

The Reality: Bush and his Repubs don't want to pay back all of those bonds in the SS Trust Fund, because it will put a crimp in their plans for more PNAC wars and more tax cuts for the rich.

And they'd be very happy to have SS go bankrupt. If fact, the Bush plan to borrow trillions of dollars for SS would be just the ticket for causing a bankruptcy of SS.

Furthermore, Bush's plans are far more costly and far more risky than doing NOTHING in the next 10 years for the "crisis" .