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Pat Buchanan: Second-Term Test
American Conservative ^ | January 31, 2005 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 01/27/2005 5:53:16 PM PST by RWR8189

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To: joesbucks
You're right, everyone knew something was going on with SS. Part of that came from his first campaign. However, SS reform or overhaul was hardly part of the campaign.

You have a right to your opinion even if contrary to facts as I remember them. In addition to 2004 stump speeches, I would consider the statements of the broadcast 2004 debate to certainly be a part of the 2004 campaign...

The Third Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate

SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, the next question is to you. We all know that Social Security is running out of money, and it has to be fixed. You have proposed to fix it by letting people put some of the money collected to pay benefits into private savings accounts. But the critics are saying that's going to mean finding $1 trillion over the next 10 years to continue paying benefits as those accounts are being set up.

So where do you get the money? Are you going to have to increase the deficit by that much over 10 years?

BUSH: First, let me make sure that every senior listening today understands that when we're talking about reforming Social Security, that they'll still get their checks.

I remember the 2000 campaign, people said if George W. gets elected, your check will be taken away. Well, people got their checks, and they'll continue to get their checks.

There is a problem for our youngsters, a real problem. And if we don't act today, the problem will be valued in the trillions. And so I think we need to think differently. We'll honor our commitment to our seniors. But for our children and our grandchildren, we need to have a different strategy.

And recognizing that, I called together a group of our fellow citizens to study the issue. It was a committee chaired by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, a Democrat. And they came up with a variety of ideas for people to look at.

I believe that younger workers ought to be allowed to take some of their own money and put it in a personal savings account, because I understand that they need to get better rates of return than the rates of return being given in the current Social Security trust.

And the compounding rate of interest effect will make it more likely that the Social Security system is solvent for our children and our grandchildren. I will work with Republicans and Democrats. It'll be a vital issue in my second term. It is an issue that I am willing to take on, and so I'll bring Republicans and Democrats together.

And we're of course going to have to consider the costs. But I want to warn my fellow citizens: The cost of doing nothing, the cost of saying the current system is OK, far exceeds the costs of trying to make sure we save the system for our children.


81 posted on 01/28/2005 3:30:38 PM PST by DBeers
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To: 4Freedom
It's funny you should accuse me of a fascination with bordellos

Dude, I have no clue what your talking about here.

So, where's that exact quote of mine I asked you for?

? "To be or not to be"?

82 posted on 01/28/2005 3:32:42 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Sonny M; sinkspur
Sonny, those remarks of mine were directed at Sinkspur, but because they had to do with a statement you had made in your post #19 and I mentioned your name I copied you as well.

I was just trying to observe proper posting etiquette, that's all.

Dude. ;^)

83 posted on 01/28/2005 4:19:45 PM PST by 4Freedom (America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!>)
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To: 4Freedom

Double Dude, I didn't see his name.


84 posted on 01/28/2005 4:24:41 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: sinkspur

"Is that a safe assumption?"

Not a safe one.


85 posted on 01/28/2005 7:39:51 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (There is more to life than "the party." Please visit www.terrisfight.org)
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To: sinkspur

"The Brotherhood never answered my question: does he consider Catholics Christians, or not?"

May be you should have asked whether I'm aware that Catholics are Christians, which they are.


86 posted on 01/28/2005 7:42:34 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (There is more to life than "the party." Please visit www.terrisfight.org)
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To: Torie

"Anyway, the screen name only brings to mind to me the "Muslim Brotherhood,""

LOL!

I'm a Christian.

I'm sure you've read George Orwell's "1984" because that's how the name popped into my mind.

OK, wrong choice of username. Maybe I should change it?


87 posted on 01/28/2005 7:47:22 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (There is more to life than "the party." Please visit www.terrisfight.org)
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To: elhombrelibre

Well illegal aliens by definition break the law, doesnt respect for law define a civilised society? As for how Catholic they are? I myself am a Catholic, and the church, due in no small part to the Mexican revelution ran by Masons and Socialists stripped much of the churches influence over Mexican society, in other words, the roots do not run very deep, and much of the influence the church has had over Mexico in the last 40 years is inflected with post Vatican II heresies.


88 posted on 01/28/2005 7:49:32 PM PST by RFT1
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To: TheBrotherhood

It depends how much "good will" appends to the name, in the sense of familiarity. I am stuck with mine in that sense on this site.


89 posted on 01/28/2005 7:52:02 PM PST by Torie
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