Aren't these the same yahoos who call themselves 'progressives'?
Posted on 03/04/2005 7:41:38 PM PST by Libloather
Dems' Own Social Security Road Show Kicks off in NYC
Sens. Clinton and Kerry Dispute Need To Privatize Social Security
Mar 4, 2005 4:20 pm US/Eastern
(WCBS/AP) As President Bush visited Westfield, N.J. to tout his Social Security reform plan, the Democrats kicked off their own Social Security tour at New York City’s Pace University.
Sen. Hillary Clinton blasted the President’s plan as risky and said recipients would face benefit reductions of one-third.
“I don’t think it’s right to saddle the students her at Pace and future generations of workers with over five trillion dollars worth of debt that we have borrowed from China and Japan and other countries,” she said.
"Social Security is not in crisis. It’s not bankrupt. It's not about to be bankrupt,” Sen. John Kerry added. He said that only a small gap needs to be filled.
Sen. Byron Dorgen of North Dakota called Bush’s plan “one big wet kiss to Wall Street from the Bush Administration.”
The Pace University forum also featured Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and former New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg.
School spokesman Chris Cory said about 20 percent of the seating at the 650-seat auditorium was reserved for students, and the rest of the tickets were distributed by the Democratic Policy Committee.
Jennifer Hanley, a spokeswoman for Clinton, said they were not screening the crowd.
"The forum is open to all New Yorkers who are concerned about the future of Social Security," said Hanley. "We've encouraged all who can to attend."
Cory said Republicans are welcome to hold their own event at Pace. "Our facilities would be open to the Republicans on this issue or any other, we are nonpartisan," he said.
The Democratic campaign-style tour will continue on to stops in Philadelphia, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
The Democratic National Committee also plans radio advertisements in each market where Bush brings his campaign for a Social Security overhaul including individual investment accounts. As Bush traveled Friday to Indiana, the ads will targeted Reps. Mike Ferguson (R-7th Dist.) and Chris Chocola (R-Ind.)
The ads accuse Bush of wanting to "end Social Security's guaranteed benefits" and tie them to the "ups and downs of the stock market." They urge listeners to call the congressmen and tell them "to oppose President Bush's risky scheme."
In Washington, Reid was collecting Democratic signatures on a letter to Bush offering to negotiate over Social Security reform if the president would drop his plan for personal accounts. That, Reid said, "would eliminate a serious obstacle to the kind of bipartisan process that Democrats are seeking."
On Wednesday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, who will shepherd any legislation, suggested that the controversy around private accounts was giving Democrats an excuse to ignore the program's serious financial problems.
"Maybe we ought to ... bring people to the table just over what do you do for the solvency," said Grassley (R-Iowa).
Aren't these the same yahoos who call themselves 'progressives'?
All I want is to opt out...I don't want to pay in and I'll never ask for anything out of it.
I'm setting my sights a bit higher. I want the same deal that the congress critters have. If I can't get their deal, I want them to get mine.
Let's see....how OLD are those people? I'll bet they are all 55 (almost for Patty Murray) or more......and THEY think they speak for the MAJORITY?????
"Senator-Head-In-The-Sand, would you support a bipartisan resolution ordering Social Security's books be immediately and independently audited so we can put to rest any doubt Americans have regarding the fund's solvency?"
Bill may outsource her big thong.
Pray for W and Our Troops
"I want the same deal that the congress critters have. If I can't get their deal, I want them to get mine."
I have been saying this for years!
Between Congress, Federal, State, County & City employees, as well as teachers having some form of personal accounts, with or without paying into SS, just what percentage of the employed are only paying into SS?
These people are so adverse to risk it is easy to see why they admire the Soviet state model. Every five year plan being the same as the last five year plan.
Power for the elites, poverty for the people.
Love this!!!
How creative and true. Wish we could get a picture of these characters with the bodies of vultures with their talons grabbing "the masses".
Doing nothing is not risky.....it just guarantees failure of the whole system. There is no risk in an inevitable outcomes. It's assured.
My Dad always says the same thing and I understand why... but like I said I want to opt out..you fellas can fight for the rest let me keep mine.
No, Hillary, sex with an intern is risky for most people, not fixing something that is broken.
Good idea. Another would be to say, "okay you pinhead, lying piece of crap Democrat...we'll leave Social Security alone if you pay back the IOU's NOW! TODAY!"
Let's see them come up with 11 trillion dollars!
Wow...FDR is the animated one there.
Take away our favorite play thang.....no way sez ratty. Gonna tie this tar baby round yo neck and scream bout it forever. Younguns we gotta havs yo money now fo to byz votes.Yo all dont votes, thems ol bule hairs doz, and wes been scarn themz fo votes fo us fo years. Never mine thats your money gone down the rats hole.
Look the only thing wrong with Social Security is too many old people!
The Democrats have a fix for that - Hillary Care!
Why don't critics bail out of their own individual "risky schemes."
Why don't some of the skid marks on journalism's shorts ask the President's critics why they themselves don't bail out of all forms of retirement plans except for transfer payments? Social Security for the anointed ones, too. No "risky schemes" for the anointed ones.
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