Posted on 10/18/2004 6:59:42 AM PDT by NotchJohnson
THE POODLE'S GETTING DESPERATE
Here we are two weeks from Election Day and all John Kerry can do is run around the country telling us all the evil things George Bush is going to do if he is reelected. What about the Kerry plan? What is his positive message for the future of America? Why isn't John Kerry telling us of all the wonderful things he will do? Well, there's a slight problem. The Kerry Plan is an empty vessel. He knows it.
The Poodle's campaign is running on doom and gloom and non-stop fear mongering. First up, it's this whole draft nonsense. Kerry knows there's never going to be a draft, but the Democrats think they can use it to scare people into voting for them. The fact of the matter is the Democrats are the only ones that have proposed a draft, and they are the only ones mentioning it. Nobody else has brought it up. sKerry continues to advance the lie because he is dishonest. But don't expect the media to call him on it.
Now we have this idiocy about a 'January Surprise.' The Poodle said yesterday that President Bush had a surprise plan for a second term to privatize social security. This is more fear mongering, this time designed to try and win votes in Florida. The Poodle is hoping to scare the Gimme Generation into voting for them, because they think George Bush is going to take away their Social Security check. This is also a lie.
George Bush's privatization plan isn't even really that. All it would do would be to allow younger people the ability to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in their own account. Real Social Security reform would be to have an age cut-off and phase out the program entirely. Don't hold your breath on that one, though.
Do remember this. In 1981 Galveston County in Texas decided to remove county employees from the Social Security system. They replaced it with a county plan where every employee owned his own account. The tax structure was virtually the same as with Social Security. A percentage was taken from the employee's paycheck to fund the private plan, and the county matched that amount with a corresponding "contribution." (The idea of a matching contribution is a fraud ... but we'll save that for another time). Like Social Security, the Galveston plan offered a retirement, death and disability benefit. Today when a county worker retires in Galveston County his retirement income exceeds what he was making when he was retired! After privatization of the Galveston retirement plan people see their income go UP, not down when they retire.
So ... why haven't more local governments done what Galveston County did? Because congress passed a law prohibiting it just two years later. Politicians need Social Security. John Kerry was illustrating that need in Florida over the weekend. He was telling wizened citizens that George Bush was going to take their Social Security away. He knows it's not true, but he also knows that these oldsters don't realize that ... so frighten them to get their votes.
The only plan the Democrats offer is fear, dishonesty and fraud.
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..Either way, If the Congressional Leaders had any foresight, this program should have gone nationwide.
...but, NO!, The slimy b@$t@$ds used the funds (since 1969) for their "Pet" project...so-called "War on Property Poverty" (Has it changed the rate/% of poverty? NO!), MedifaudCare/Aid...the list is endless. Thomas Jefferson has been proven correct again...
Pray for W and Our Troops
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Snap it!)
THE POODLE BITES!
(Come on, Frenchie)
THE POODLE CHEWS IT!
(Snap it!)
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Thanks Neal, I could use a new tag line...
Someone on the Bush team has to start the mantra, "If John Kerry is elected, interest rates will go through the roof." It will give every voter some real-wrold cause to think twice about our old tax and friend spend.
Bush has helped keep interest rates low and allow more home ownership and independence than ever before.
These are, as I sais, suggest nuggets of counter-rhetoric. I am especially fond of the "before high interest rates under Kerry", which can also be stated as, "he owns five mansions, but with high interest rates, you won't even be able to buy a starter home."
damn, 'glum, learn to type:
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