Contest Seeks to ‘Stop the Republican Social Security Scam’

CNS News ^ | 3-1-05 | Susan Jones

[FlyLow]

(CNSNews.com) - Anti-Bush activists are replaying a publicity stunt from the presidential campaign, launching a nationwide contest to produce a "Macromedia Flash animation, game or interactive application" that shows how President Bush''s reform plan will "gut Social Security."

MoveOn PAC announced it is joining forces with actor John Cusack, cartoonist Aaron McGruder, and liberal activists Al Franken and Arianna Huffington to promote the contest, called "Bush in 30 Years: A Flash Contest to Stop the Republican Social Security Scam."

MoveOn PAC said it is inviting its 3 million members, college students, and Flash animation designers (amateurs and professionals alike) to submit Flash pieces.

"The winning entry will be posted on high-traffic Internet sites," MoveOn Pac said in a press release. "The goal is to reach workers of all ages, particularly those under 55," the group added.

The contest is similar to MoveOn Voter Fund's "Bush in 30 Seconds" TV ad contest of last year. That contest included two submissions comparing President Bush to Adolph Hitler, prompting a heated exchange between the Republican National Committee and MoveOn.org.

Wes Boyd, the founder of the liberal advocacy group, ended up agreeing that "the two ads in question were in poor taste," but he also noted that the ads, although posted on MoveOn.org's website in the runup to the presidential campaign, were not endorsed by MoveOn.org.

[Salgak]

Gee. . .if previous efforts, like The Bushgame are any gauge, we have nothing to fear. . .

[Run Silent Run Deep]

I hope we can get some kind of private accounts even if we have to raise the income cap on SS taxes a little.

[greatsquire]

Why is the plan a SCAM? A scam is a theft, fraud or something dishonest? I am Democrat and everyone has the right to an opinion, have not made up my mind on the plan on account of the mistakes persons might make with their investments into the hands of the greedy but I refuse to have my children growing up around ill notions such as the following. The president of the United States would provide something illegal or fraudulent to the American people rather than perhaps partisan or faulty.

Sincerely,
Financial Advisor

[Let's Roll]

Can't these private contributions be mandatory like the current SS with-holding but allow a wide range of investment options - some of them quite safe like CDs, bonds etc.? I mean it doesn't have to go into the hands of the greedy.

Younger individuals could accept more risk and older people less just like private pension plans which no one demagogues as being too risky etc.

The earnings would still be much greater than the current program and the account would belong to the individual or his estate - not the govt to p!ss away on more nonsense.