LTTE to the Christian Science Monitor

[nadinbrzezinski]

See about reframing the debate folks and how it can be used... in letters to the editor, for instance.

To the Editor,

Let's speak plain English when we speak of the President's agenda.

When he speaks of Social Security Reform, he truly means Social Security Privatization.

When he speaks of Don't Leave no Child Behind, we are truly speaking of Privatization of the public school system and the creation of a two tier system.

When they speak of Tax Reform and getting rid of the present code, this is code for flat tax or Value Added, national sales tax, both incredibly regressive tax systems.

When he speaks of cutting the deficit by half, he means cutting all non essential services, in other words the social net. Moreover this is coming from the Credit Card party that has led the nation to HISTORIC Deficits, with no accountability.

Yet the destruction of the New Deal and her programs has been the goal of the conservative movement since 1932. They truly desire to go back to 1900, which they hold as an ideal view of the Country. If you were very rich, you never had it so good, admittedly. So do me and your readers a favor, stop using their code words and call a spade a spade. After all, Cheap Labor Conservatives need labor to be plentiful again and this is part of a wide spanning strategy to ensure the rise of a new feudalism.

Sincerely,

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. well done!

And you are right. We should tell it like it is. Or as Jack McCoy said on Law & Order last week-"half the country thinks (Bush's policies) are Orwellian doublespeak."

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I'll use another authority

Semantics matter,

So wrote Martin Luther King Jr.

[Demit]

2. Actually, even if you say Social Security Privatization, where's the

security in it? Wouldn't it be even more accurate to refer to it as Abolishing Social Security? Or the End of Social Security?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Nowhere, but first you have to tell it like it is

what they want to do it and how they wlll see it, is, YOU will be able to do whatever you want with your money. It is a give away to Wall Street, but they are not eliminating it, technically speaking... first speak of what it is... privatization, enough noise and then you can show to people what has happened in other countries where this model was used (Argentina)

First things first, we must get the MSM to STOP carrying water and one way to do it is... show them we know what the code words mean

[Vincardog]

5. Or making sure that Wall street got it's cut of Social Security?

How about undoing the most successful Government program in history?

[ldf]

9. gambling with social security

it all gets lost in the end, by going into the broker's pockets.

a REAL good plan....

:grr:

[CAcyclist]

7. Social Insecurity

Social Gambling

[CAcyclist]

6. Right on

Reframing needs to be our mantra.

My thoughts: When republicans say reform, we should say deform or regression or repeal progress

Remember when Gingrich first promoted his Contract With America and democrats were able to successfully reframe it by calling it the Contract On America? We need to keep looking at ways to do that.

I would like to see us brainstorm on this

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. go the framing the debate group here on DU

We are doind some of that there...

As is I encourage folks to write to their local papers, and let them know, we won't take the bull crap any more

[underpants]

10. The part about the two tiered education system is often overlooked

Hudson Institute is the architect and main driver of this. All the "The schools are failing" business over the last 30 years was the ground work to get to where we are today.