LaRouche's EIR has a good article on the Bush plunder of SS

[whistle]

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Bush's Lies on Social Security
Could Cost Americans Trillions

by Paul Gallagher


Starting with a Dec. 6 meeting with Congressmen, President George W. Bush began a drive to privatize and loot some or all of the $125 trillion which American workers are scheduled to contribute to Social Security over the next 75 years, proving himself a liar in his repeated campaign promises that he would "not touch the benefits of America's retirees." Reports from the meeting show that the unfortunate President insists on pushing all or most of those payroll contributions into private individual retirement accounts, destined to fill up Wall Street sinkholes, just like the recent years' disappearing 401k private retirement pensions which Americans now ruefully call their "201ks."

Cheney and Bush plan to make the announced Dec. 15-16 "White House economic summit" into a stealing summit, by ignoring the dollar's collapse, and focussing instead on Social Security privatization and new tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

Compounding his campaign lies that he would not loot Social Security benefits, Bush now peddles an even bigger falsehood: that Social Security is bankrupt. Press spokesman Scott McClellan, at the Dec. 6 White House briefing, repeatedly told the press a completely irresponsible whopper, that the Social Security fund will be $10 trillion in deficit at some indefinite future epoch "if we do nothing." There is not the most remote basis for this "straw man" claim—an asteroid will hit the Earth first—except that if it's believed, anything Bush does to wreck Social Security looks good by comparison.

<more at link> http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/ss_privatization/3149bush_lies_ss.html

[Spinzonner]

1. It's a matter of how bad off we are when

Lyndon Larouche and his minions are more credible than the administration.

Apocalypse yesterday, today, and tomorrow ...

[Vanje]

2. The broken clock thats right twice a day

LaRouche is a crank and a con man.

Members of his "organization" (cult?) get personal information from liberal oriented websites, such as online petitions. Once these assholes get your phone number, you will not be left alone.

[indigobusiness]

3. But they do a good job of digging up all the good dirt

before promptly burying themselve's with it.

[whistle]

4. Well, has anyone else taken the trouble to dig up facts....

...and figures on what Bush is doing to us before it actually happens? Shrub wants to privatize Social Security and in typical Bush fashion he says "trust me, I had a message from God that this the right way to go". I say ok, I'll trust but first you must be able to demonstrate in detailed analysis what it is you plan to do and then you must be accountable because we are going to monitor this and stop it if it is not turning out the way you said it will turn out.

[indigobusiness]

6. I agree.

I'm glad for anyone in the trenches.

[Sara Beverley]

5. They do what the Dems should be doing. They are more correct than

wrong. Check out the rest of their site.

[Sara Beverley]

7. But they still are not worse than this administration.

No matter from where they get the info, no one else is putting it out there.

[indigobusiness]

8. I think much of their "info" is solid.

It's where they go with it (off a cliff) that leaves me behind.

[absolutezero]

9. exactly

the basics are pretty good. It's the ranting about a jewish conspiracy and the brainwashing of his followers that turns me off

[genieroze]

10. Kick

[Swamp Rat]

11. Anybody have some good links ABOUT LaRouche? (not from him)

There's a LaRouche guy here who has envolved himself in all of our local Democratic meetings/protests, pushing everything "LaRouche."