Being less confrontation does not work. Get getting into their faces.
Well done!
Sounds like you were very brave to speak the truth to a hostile crowd. I suspect that you weren't going to change any minds, though, as it appears that the crowd was a bunch of old Democrats, and they're pretty close-minded (despite the inappropriate "Progressive" label).
EXCELLENT! Nice work.
Their claps will be remembered by the booing geezers.
Most dangerous place on the planet is the space between a geezer and his entitlement.
Most people are dead horses.
That's your statement? That's what you said?
I'd boo you too, and I'm 38.
The transition must be further out than now and more gradual than immediate.
"300 Greedy Geezers"
Great name for a rock band.
First of all stop calling them "greedy geezers". I speak to seniors age over 70, they have real fears about their benefits, acknowledge their fears. I reassure them that our President will never let them down and they are than very approving of private accts for their grandchildren.
Why get so confrontational with them? But like I said the seniors I speak with are conservatives and have been all their lives and yes they have fears but once they are calmed they admit to loving the reform and wish they had the opportunity of private accts when they were younger.
Some of these Ed Asner understudies can get on a guy's wick; I'm glad my folks don't act like the rest of the world is obligated to subsidize them.
Pete "The Weasel" Visclosky was having coffee at our company cafeteria in 1990 and I walked up to his table and told him that if the Gary Airport was expaned as he was promoting it (and still is), it would ruin my life (I live near Cline Avenue). Boy, that was a conversation stopper!
Beautiful, I wouldn't have changed a thing.
That's the 'extreme right wing AFL-CIA.'
Check out the film Barcelona, which is a great film to sit back and enjoy!
You might have asked the Honorable Member (I use that term advisedly) why Congress has excepted itself from SS...
Good job peeing the AFL-CIO's Wheaties.
Way to go! You got their attention, and inspired others here.
"greedy geezers"
THere's your first problem. That's repugnant. There is nothing "greedy" about people who have paid into SS Trust Fund all their working lives wanting their benefits as promised.
This isn't Welfare. This is money that was extorted from our paychecks and was to be there for our retirement. The rotten politicians from JFK to the present STOLE the trillions that have been paid in. Those "greedy geezers" are the victims, not the problem.
Until you realize that, you just don't have an argument they'll want to hear.
I support the 4% provided they give the rest of us the 4% we've already paid in.
Your anger should be addressed to the CROOKS in our government...there should be many trillions in that account but instead there's NOTHING.
That includes this present administration. Where's that "lockbox" that they keep campaigning on??? That money should be put into an account that our Greedy Politicians can't touch.
If it had been, there would be ZERO shortage...in fact, there should be surplus trillions.
As for there being no money..I would suggest that instead of Bush giving every single third world hellhole our money, they repay their own citizens back first.
If we can afford 15 million to pay the Palestinians electric bills, we can certainly pay back our seniors.
You're a brave man, sir. I admire you!