Posted on 10/19/2004 1:43:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.....Start with the political scare word, "privatization." This accusation works with some voters because many Americans mistakenly assume that their payroll deductions are currently going into a government account with their name on it that will then be paid out when they retire. Privatization conjures up a vision that they will have to provide for their own retirement with no government safety net whatsoever.
Sorry to break it to these trusting souls, but there are no Social Security accounts. Today's payroll taxes are spent by today's politicians. And in today's system, future benefits depend on politicians elected years from now keeping to the spirit of vague promises made by today's politicians. That's not the kind of guarantee we find comforting. Mr. Bush is talking about giving workers the kind of personal accounts, with an actual property right, that many thought they had all along, and filling them with real assets, not mere promises.
.....At his party's convention in Boston, Mr. Kerry pledged, "As President, I will not privatize Social Security." OK, fine. But as President, what would he do to prevent a fiscal catastrophe? Isn't this part of a President's job description?
He certainly hasn't left himself much room for leadership. His campaign Web site says: "As president, John Kerry will not raise Social Security taxes, raise the retirement age, cut benefits for people that rely on Social Security or privatize Social Security." These promises simply can't all be kept. There is a choice to be made.
Mr. Bush is at least proposing one way to address the problem that is open to public scrutiny and debate. Senator Kerry refuses to choose, assures us that with "minor changes" it will all work out somehow, and demonizes his opponent for having a plan. These are the scare tactics of a desperate....
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Kerry's only concern is with his being privatized come November 3rd.
Yes. His character is much more suited to the Senate.
Kerry is at a dead-end. He has no debates left and is not as good a campaigner as Bush. Scare tactics are the only resort to those who are losing.
HAS HE NO SHAME?
The new social security inroads toward OWNERSHIP would help blacks the most.
Statistically, they die younger and their retirement is lost.
With Bush's plan, retirement savings are inherited by the surviving family.
I think that it's time for Kerry and his PLAN to be put away in Al Gore's Lockbox.
Meanwhile in Florida....
Florida high court rules on provisional ballots
October 19, 2004
Tallahassee, Fla. -- People who cast provisional ballots at the wrong precinct are not entitled to have their votes counted, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Monday,
rejecting an argument by labor unions that the rule wrongly disenfranchises voters.
In an unanimous ruling, the court said the law clearly states provisional ballots must be counted only if the person was entitled to vote "at the precinct," and that the
constitution gives the Legislature the authority to dictate voting rules.
Under Florida law, if voters show up at a polling place but officials there have no record they are registered, they are given provisional ballots. Those ballots are held
until officials determine if the voters were entitled to vote at that precinct and had not already cast ballots.
If they should have been allowed to vote at that precinct, the ballots count; if not, they are thrown out.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/187549-1803-010.html
I am SO sick of this crap.
People need to realize, we are voting for COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
Kerry is a fear monger.
ALL democrats run on fear and lies.
I hate them, save for Zell Miller
and maybe a couple of others, whose
names escape me.
I am so mad right now.
Absolutley irate.
I watched BORe and became livid.
So much so, that I just penned him
an e-mail about a half hour ago. LOL.
You and millions of Americans.
Come on Bill, I am a partisan Republican,
but "historian" Brinkley is a partisan Democrat.
Where was the balance to off-set Brinkley's
whitewash of Kerry's post war activities?
Brinkley explaining away Kerry's own words!
Outrageous and inaccurate.
Tricia Onyx
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Can't we start an internet rumor that kerry is going to tax and regulate (before abolishing ) ALL bingo games ???...You know,...require ID for sign up to play....take 50% off the top of ANY winnings( to help pay for senior's SS etc)...
...and a Cincinatus'Wife BTTT !!!
Check LINK in Post 13.
IF ONLY voters will see it Yepsen's
and OUR way.
Kerry is a serious danger to our nation.
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