"Bush urges HASTE on Social Security reform'! EMERGENCY!

[Bluebear]

HASTE is needed! Do we want the cause of out inaction to be a mushroom cloud in one of our cities? Oops sorry, that was the 'emergency' of Iraq. Sorry, wrong crisis.

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WASHINGTON - 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.

"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."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20050226/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. That was Gingrich's talking point..make it an emergency

[Bluebear]

2. Hey hey, ho ho, social security's got to go!

I read where some college students were using that as a cheer. Sigh.

[Deja Q]

3. The US is heading toward bankruptcy. Or does * want to keep that hushed?

SS isn't the issue. Cutting taxes everywhere while finding new ways to spend billions of dollars (in this case with wars) is.

The US made its own enemy 20-some years ago. Back when Saddam was a friend and the Mujahedeen our spiritual brethern, to fight off those evil commies. (Mujahedeen became the Taliban, BTW...)

[Canuckistanian]

4. "Fix SS permanently"

I keep getting images of Tony Soprano...

[Bluebear]

5. SS swims wit da fishes

Pass it on.