Posted on 02/26/2005 5:30:25 PM PST by mission9
Heads up Florida Freepers - a congresswoman, Representative Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL-05), is jumping off the reservation and attempting to scuttle the President's Social Security reforms. She is holding two Town Meetings in her district of central Pasco County. I, on behalf of all right thinking conservatives, encourage every avaliable Freeper to attend and show her some love to change her wayward flirtations with Hillary and Ted Kennedy. If you can't attend, contact her office. http://www.house.gov/brown-waite/
These are the Times and Places:
February 28, 2005
Zephyrhills City Council Chambers
Zephyrhills City Hall (seats 120)
5335 8th St. Zephyrhills, FL
10am
Representative Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL-05)
February 28, 2005
Land O'Lakes Community Center rear room (seats 120)
5401 Land O'Lakes Blvd. Land O'Lakes
2pm
I have never seen a Republican Town hall meeting, is this some thing only Democrats and Rino's do?
You will have to show up to find out.
I am sorry , you see I live in Md. and the Republicans take it for granted we will vote Dem and they never bother to appear here. Yes It ticks off a lot of Republicans that we are only a few miles from DC and never see a Presidential candidate that isnt a Democrat, but its a fact of life.
Get off her a$$!! She took out Thurman in '02 and she is an effective Representative for having so little tenure. She also represents the most SS recipients in the nation, she has to walk carefully.
Let's have a full blown plan from someone instead of this coy "open to any ideas" crap. How can she support what isn't out there yet????
The "open to any ideas" approach is a perfectly appropriate way for a President to interact with congress and it is how Bush has succeeded in the past: create guiding principles but let Congress draft the bill. What's happening now though is that Congress is too timid to make the tough decisions and trade-offs that will be required for Social Security reform. I think Bush needs to expedite the timetable, hold Senate hearings shortly to discuss the options, and then issue a detailed plan (which is done in partnership with leading GOP senate leaders on this issue like Graham). I hope Rove and Co. don't have their plan etched in stone because right now, because with a lack of public support and wary Republicans, it appears the wheels are coming off.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever to support your claims? Or are you just doing the lemming thing and running off the cliff because she has the temerity to disagree with King George?
If you really understood what a theft of meager earnings for the poorest people in our society that Social Security represents, then you would be shouting in the streets to end Social Security NOW! If just 3% of income (not 12%)-$375.00 were consistently deposited into a Mutual fund that tracks the S&P 500 for 58 years, then even a minimum-wage earner could retire a millionaire.
Instead, the Government operates this Ponzi scheme, that would send any body else who proposed it to prison. Stop supporting the political gravy train.
Maybe that you just don't care about the least important people in society, but I am talking about you. Will you retire more than a millionaire? You could, if you had just done as I, and the president, suggest. You should really be upset that this amount of your paycheck has not been invested for you. It has been paid out, and borrowed away.
Though I've worked with Jeb Bush's last campaign, I'm in PA and not likely to be able to make it to FL anytime soon. I wish you success. Private investment is the only way to "fix" Social Security. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have been saying that since it's inception.
I've been a huge fan of SS privatization since Chile first pioneered the idea. Time has proven the idea WORKS.
Mission9, you are absolutely correct. Presindetn Bush's plan will greatly increase those SS payments to a much higher dividend.
Sounds like liberal organizations are making false phone calls slandering her in the district. She has the right to respond.
The method to accomplish this is a generational phase-in of a system of personal accounts. They would operate just like the retirement system that is available to federal workers, administered by the Federal Government. Because of the power of compound interest, the future recipients would retire wealthy, and not with just a pittance. Let workers begin to chose today to contribute a small amount (1%), to accounts of this type. Over time the amount of contribution would be no more than 4%. This leaves plenty of money, 90-70% to fund the present system. If all eligible workers chose today to contribute that 1% (moving to 4%) of their income, then the cost to the social security system is less than 20 billion dollars per annum (increasing to 80 billion). This is the short term cost. This amount would be financed by treasury bonds. This is a small price to pay, to gradually replace an unfunded liability with a funded liabilty (asset). Remember, the unfunded liability of SS is 29 trillion dollars. This would be the long term savings of the President's proposal. As for your assertion that it is too late, it is never too late to stop a failed system. It is never too late to do the right thing. The President has not asked her to support a plan he has not presented. He has asked her to engage in solving the problem, the answer to which should involve personal accounts. Not tax increases or benefit cuts.
The entire vision of the President is that even minimum wage earners can retire wealthy because of the power of compound returns fueled by the finest economy the world has ever known - the American enterpanuerial system.
You are correct. Union organizers and members of other liberal pressure groups from outside the district made an half-hearted attempt to confuse the issues and defend the present system. Ginny handled them well.
She needs to be purged from the GOP.
RE: Get off her a$$!
No! Purge her.
Personally, I would vote for, help fund, and campaign for anyone willing to phase out Social Security. It could indeed be done, without harming anyone.
I've been to several Republican sponsored "town hall meetings." Bob Barr used to do them all the time when he was in office. Bob Barr is certainly no RINO.
What I don't understand is why the Bush team doesn't talk about Galveston more. If I'm not mistaken, they are the ones who opted out of SS 20+ years ago, and have results to talk about.
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