Social Security Breakout--How Bush can vindicate his Medicare giveaway

Wall St Journal ^ | 12-01-03

[SJackson]

With Medicare legislation out of the way, for better or probably worse, at least President Bush can now turn his political attention to fulfilling his promise to modernize Social Security. The scope of his opportunity will be evident with the release today of an official budget score of one of the more energetic reform proposals.

[SJackson]

Let the Campaign Begin--Prepare to change the way you think about Social Security, PETER FERRARA

[NeoCaveman]

6.4 of the 12.4 this would be incredible. And once again "you told us so"

[hobbes1]

I saw this gem just a little while ago while at the gym....


This is the most Conservative Policy Agenda Item, ever undertaken by a President......


Look at the Federal Budget Pie Chart.

Reforming this entitlement, is a massive exchange of power from the Government to the People......

And right behind introducing some privatization to Mediscare.



Oh, and P.S....What can the Dumbocrats ever run on now....these two items, could send that collection of Special Interests and Commie-Symp socialist wannbes into a death spiral.

[hobbes1]

Call, the Sculptor, Get him a Chisel and a Picture, and point him towards Mt.Rushmore.

[Redbob]

If Bush "fixes" Social Security the way he "fixed" Medicare, we're all SCREWED!

[petercooper]

Yes, he may just triple the S.S. payments to all those needy elderly who struggle to choose between the cruise to the Carribean or the Caddy Seville.

Buy your own damn drugs.

[MattinNJ]

Do you think he'll reform the income tax if the G.O.P wins big in '04?

[hobbes1]

That I doubt......I dont think, that anyone can pull down two Big Ticket items like that simultaneously.....


And really, that is the one downside of SSI reform. That money not going to the Government, will make the bite they take from witholding seem smaller than it really is.

[steveegg]

I wish I could believe the Pubbies would be serious about this kind of Social Security reform, but there's no votes to be bought here. There's no new money going to the seasoned citizens, there's no new money going to the nearly-retired, and the new money that would be going to the young wouldn't first be filtered through Washington.

[steveegg]

You brought up another good point; this kind of Social Security reform, unlike the grafting of a new Ponzi to Medicare, wouldn't do anything to advance the new American mantra - "I wanna live forever on somebody else's dime!"

[steveegg]

Why Social Security will never be changed (at least until it's far too late) - FYI: "Social Security in Your Old Age" (Informational Service Circular No. 9) c. 1936

[jrp]

I'll believe it when the first dollar hits my
new personal SS account. Been lots of talk in the past
about reform. Meanwhile, the years roll by and
over 10K of my hard-earned dollars continue
to be lost down the SS rathole every year.

[AuntB]

Social Security, I fear, is beyond reform, it needs shot and buried. We can pray the legislooters will actually reform it without handing out more to illegals, etc.

Please consider reading and signing the petition to reform Social Security Disbability so that citizens who have paid into the system for decades can get their benefits as well as illegals who have contributed nothing.

PETITION TO REFORM SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SSDC/petition.html

[k2blader]

A part of me wants SS to be "privatized". But a larger part of me would rather it become defunct, the sooner the better.

[AuntB]

http://www.petitiononline.com/SSDC/petition.html

Petition to reform Social Security Disability

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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