Bush Urges Haste on Social Security Reform

[98geoduck]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: February 26, 2005

Filed at 10:07 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Back from stroking U.S. allies in Europe, President Bush now is lobbying a home-front target: wary lawmakers returning from a long congressional break, where they heard their constituents' concerns about Social Security overhaul. The lawmakers got an earful from voters back home. Now, Bush wants them to listen to him....

``Every year we wait to address this problem will make any eventual solution more painful and drastic, and we will saddle our children and grandchildren with an ever-greater burden,'' he said Saturday. ``We need to act now to fix Social Security permanently.''

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush.html

I think we can wait a few more years when we have someone with competence to come up with a plan that will actually benefit the working middle class and not the Corporations and market investors you're whoring for.

[lonestarnot]

1. sound familiiar? How 'bout rush to war? NO WMD? n/t

[Warpy]

26. He needs to rush even harder now

because his lieutenant, Delay, is under serious fire, and without him to bully Congress into toeing the line, he's got absolutely no hope of this money grab passing.

Delay, you will recall, holds GOP party purse strings, and any congresscritter who wants party support come election time needs to hear and obey.

If we manage to get rid of Delay, the whole edifice will start to crumble.

Plus, it will be wonderful to see how that fat, cigar chomping thug looks in orange.

[lonestarnot]

28. The sweet sound of music to my ears! n/t

[HereSince1628]

33. Hurry, hurry, no plan yet, but trust me, you'll love it. REALLY!

Why AARP will be dancing in the street when it happens, Republicans will be showered in flowers.

See, we learned this strateegery in Iraq. Win the battle and then what follows don't matter, cause nothin is relavent after that.

Nov 2000 changed everything!

[bearfan454]

2. F*ck his SS ripoff plan

F*ck him too.

[lonestarnot]

3. Second! You have a second! n/t

[Rose Siding]

4. He's admitted his scheme doesn't fix anything

so acting now "to fix" SS has nothing to do with anything he's proposed.

[SHRED]

5. What details?

What are the details of shrub's plan?(trick question)

[98geoduck]

6. Borrow trillions to invest in Wall street, and pray.

[Just Me]

22. ,...just before the neoCONs start a WW and cause a depression,...(eom)

[Warpy]

29. Borrow 2 trillion to fund a changeover bureaucracy

so that people can invest 2% of their insurance premiums in a stock market funded annuity pledged to pay 6% per year but charge at least 15% in "service fees." The annuity is not transferable, so if the person who pays in croaks before he gets a dime, the gummint takes it all. His survivors are left with nothing.

It's a scam. It further defunds a program they're howling is running out of money.

[librechik]

7. creating urgency

where there is none. Thank you, Karl Rove!

[primavera]

41. That's how it works

Give people any time to think about his plan or discover any of the actual facts and he's run out of town on a rail, and well does he know it.

[MadMichDem]

8. He seems a little confused.....

"...we will saddle our children and grandchildren with an ever-greater burden"

Haven't we already done this with the record DEFICITS????

The Worst Prez in History.

[kikiek]

9. Didn't care about saddling the children when he cut taxes during a

war and already huge deficit. I am beginning to really believe the collapse of the dollar is going to happen. Then many of the children won't even have a home to live in. If he wants to protect the children then he will stop making war, not cut taxes on the richest, expand the social security tax. He's a pathological liar and incredibly stupid.

[ulTRAX]

45. ultimate in hypocrisy

Bush LOVES increasing the debt on the next generation. In 2000 he ran on preserving the Clinton surplus to strengthen SS. It was his top priority. Yet EVERYTHING he's done these past 4 years has been designed to increase the debt.

[dbt]

10. Flapping his long chimpy arms,

jumping up and down, pissing down both legs as he screams "Now, Now, NOW!" Here's another crisis that we just have to deal with RIGHT NOW, no discussion. Trust me, I know what's best!

Sorry, bu$hler. If your SS assessment turns out to be TWICE as accurate as your rationale for invading IraQ, it'll still be a clusterfuck!

[wryter2000]

23. LMAO

jumping up and down, pissing down both legs as he screams "Now, Now, NOW!"

Lordy, what an image. And spot on :yourock:

On edit: Maybe that's what he does in the bedroom with Laura.

[Trajan]

11. Trajan urges the President and his party ....

To stuff their SS Destruction Plan (SSDP) into their dilated asses .... and sit down and rotate ......

Trajan further urges the President and His party to immediately concede their own malfeasance and to resign their posts forthwith, and allow rational and sane persons to assume those important positions .... for the good of the world ....

[smoogatz]

12. Fool me once...

Once again, Bushco is banking on the infinite corruptibility of the RR congress, the sloth and cowardice of News Inc., and the ignorance, greed and gullibility of the American people. Which is why SS piratization will probably succeed.

[BlueEyedSon]

13. "Bushco: Governing by manufactured crises since 2001"

:puke:

[FourStarDemocrat]

14. We all know that haste makes waste..

Unfortunately, that's the way this administration likes it. Waste away a record budget surplus, waste away thousands of soldier and civilian lives, waste away social security.

[theophilus]

15. My Momma and Daddy taught me that when somebody is

selling you something and they "rush" you with this kind of tactic.....it is probably a scam and you should just shake your head and walk away. The used car salesman's tactic of "there's a guy that will pick this beauty up in an hour if you don't take it NOW" should be obvious with this lemon.

[Mountainman]

19. Plus we can't do much if we get buyer's remorse

[shanti]

16. hurry

line up and get screwed is what he's saying!

[Mountainman]

17. Hurry and do this before it makes me look like a weak lame duck pres.

I'm sure they are saying behind the scenes that he can't afford to lose this or else he'll look weak.

The neocons don't give a shit about anything but pushing their agenda down all our throats.

I hope we get enough left wing media in place to counter his lies.

By the way. I haven't heard the freepers wade in on this. Do they trust their future payments in Bush's hands knowing quite well that the wing nut agenda is to do away with all entitlement programs. What's the freeper perspective on this?

Bush has said that private accounts will not fix social security and he hasn't offered a plan in detail to fix it. Do they trust him with out any facts?

I heard a repuke congress critter say on NPR that the Dems have to come up with a plan. Well they have one. It got us to a surplus in 2000 and we can do it again.

[aintitfunny]

18. Like he cares about our grand children's burden

what the hell is the trillions of dollars in debt if not a major burden for future generations? That premise assumes we have any future generations by the time he stops playing the Apocalypse game in the Middle East

Does he not listen, every indicator I have seen is the American people do not want his harebrained scheme. Only the die hard republican right seems to support this, and even many of them seem not that thrilled.

So much for government of the people, by the people and for the people, except when Bush is in the Oval.

[stepnw1f]

20. God Take Him Out

before he kills us all.

[Strelnikov_]

31. He Serves A Purpose As Far As 'God' Is Concerned

You can't have the battle between good vs. evil without the evil part.

[stepnw1f]

36. Yawnnnnnnnnnnn

like I said

[Rose Siding]

21. Ha! Reuters headline: Bush Asks Public for Help to Fix Social Security

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7747448&src=rss/ElectionCoverage

Reminds me of that old commercial: Help me...I've fallen and I can't get up.

[wryter2000]

25. Ye gods

"I'm willing to listen to any good idea and I will work in good faith with members of Congress from both parties," he said. "If you make clear that you expect your leaders to confront problems head on, not pass them on to future generations, I am confident that we will put aside partisan politics in Washington."

How many times can he lie in one breath?

[Trillo]

24. QUICK! Make SS accounts private so

they'll be handled just like consumer's data is by private data aggregators. With the new privatized SS accounts, instead of just allowing your identity to be stolen by crooks, your money will also be at risk! QUICK!

[robbedvoter]

27. Kenny needs a new pair of shoes!

So much money out of my reach! Faster , faster!

[wishlist]

30. Why did he wait 4yrs until after reelection if it was such a crisis

He is such a liar and so confident he can trick Americans once again into going along with him.

[Deja Q]

32. My two cents on this issue, and fuck 'em all who want privatization:

Why the haste on something that'll remain solvent until 2042? Purportedly 2042 anyway...

We need reforms in the US. But they need to be in the best interests of ALL. Not just the short-term market needs of the wealthy and business owners, who typically are ignorant (unwittingly, unknowingly, or deliberately) to the struggles everyone else faces.

The stock market recently dropped 150 points because South Korea figured it out that the US dollar is shit when in control by neocon thugs who cut'n'spend-wastefully instead of tax'n'spend-wisely.

I don't want the money I put into SS to be moved to the stock market, which helps mainly the execs who own all the stocks, who in turn sell when the price is right - leaving me with nothing. That's the system that we've seen over the last few years. and those selling are the ilk of Ken Lay and other evil criminals.

Yes, evil. Evil is more than ramming a plane into a building. At least those 3000 died quickly. Old people with no money die slowly and in more pain. So what Ken Lay, et al, did is even MORE evil than OBL and 19 terrorists, 15 of which were Saudi and not Afghani. x(

[LevelB]

34. Even if there was a crisis

I would not want the wrecking crew working on it.

B.

[peekaloo]

35. "back from stroking U.S. allies"

LOL....I can't read any further......fuck the fuckwit.

[LynnTheDem]

37. LOL!!! bush is such a lying loserman.

What a total dork he is.

Wally.

Prat.

Plodder.

Moran.

Git.

[nodictators]

38. "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Social Security's gotta go!"

That was the chant of Rick Santorum's college Repubs at an anti-SS rally.

These ignorant college Repubs unwittingly were telling everyone that Bush is a LIAR!

Sen. Boxer said a few weeks ago that Bush intended to destroy SS.

House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, said a few days ago that Bush's plan is a "rip-off."

Just like Saddam, the tyrant Bush steals from his own countrymen and women.

Tyrant Bush also plans to kill Medicare and Medicaid, and then impose a flat tax, which will devastate ordinary Americans, and give still more tax cuts to the rich.

[HockeyMom]

43. My daughters

aren't buying this. College daughter calls it Gambling ("How the hell am I going to know if the stock market will tank in 45 YEARS?")and working 26 year old daughter (who HAS 401K) calls it making Wall Street Brokers RICHER.

On the subject of those College Republicans, my younger daughter has had many run ins with them ranging from phone calls, to nasty emails, to being censored on the campus radio station for making "anti Bush" statements on air. She called Bush an idiot on air. Free speech? Campus officials told her that even though there weren't very many complaints, they "didn't want to make waves." This, by the way, was at a State University in one of the Bluest of Blue States.

[llmart]

50. You should be proud of your daughters...

you apparently brought them up to be independent thinkers - something in short supply in this country.

[Festivito]

39. Quick! Before the dollar crashes.

Not that it would matter. He'd just say that now it's even more important.

[genieroze]

40. Sounds like * is throwing another one of his pissy fits. "I want, I want,

gimme, gimme, now, what I want!"

[applegrove]

42. Wait for someone competent. Good plan.

[xxqqqzme]

44. he is always in such a fucking

hurry. This 'crisis' mode crap is very tiresome. Is this a trademark of the premature ejaculator?

[mbee]

46. We need some nationwide bumper stickers with something like

-DO YOU REALLY WANT FRIENDS OF ENRON HANDLING YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY?- I think the DNC should consider giving out stickers like this.

[MisterP]

47. "it's a knockout!":

quick! quick! turn about three times! hurry! throw the marshmallows! now blow into the tuba! the TUBA! run up and down the catwalk! run, RUN! run like there's now tomorrow! jump over the stiles! whattya waiting for, jump! now empty your wallet into the box! hurry! now...
trying to get us so carried up in a frenzy of action and hopping when told that we do what he wants

[Moderator]

48. kick to combine

[jefferson_dem]

49. Bush Urges Haste on Social Security Reform - - Oh...OK...LOL!!!

WASHINGTON - Back from stroking U.S. allies in Europe, President Bush (news - web sites) now is lobbying a home-front target: wary lawmakers returning from a long congressional break, where they heard their constituents' concerns about Social Security (news - web sites) overhaul. The lawmakers got an earful from voters back home. Now, Bush wants them to listen to him.


"We need to act now to fix Social Security permanently," he said Saturday in a radio address aimed at Congress.


The president is making a fresh push for his plan to let younger workers put part of their Social Security payroll taxes in private investment accounts. He has taken that campaign to eight states and is continuing it next Friday in New Jersey and Indiana.


Bush is making the trips in hopes of persuading voters to pressure Congress to tackle the future solvency problems of the politically sensitive Social Security system. His message is twofold: reassure those born before 1950 that their Social Security benefits will not change in any way and tell younger workers that "Social Security is heading toward bankruptcy."

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