FactCheck.org Bush Proposes Slowing Growth of Social Security Benefits for Future Retirees
My belief is, Bush and Company have looked at the polls, found there is no support for their privatization scheme, so they are now throwing out this carrot in the hopes they will lure support from traditional Democrats. Don't bite folks; Bush's Lies About Social Security are the same as his lies about IRAQ!!! First of all he is not trying to save Social Security; he is trying to load it with so much debt through his privatization scheme he can say it was a grand experiment but it failed. Talk to any far right wing extremist you know without them knowing your viewpoint. Ask them how they feel about Social Security; they will tell you Social Security should be destroyed. So then ask yourself; is this is a moderate or right wing administration?
The neo-cons running the government do not want the working class to have economic security. Economic security equals power; people with power can demand things. When unemployment reached all time lows during the Clinton Economic successes of the 90's, corporations were forced to provide benefits like day care, relaxed work environments, better health care, all to lure workers in a worker's market. This really aggravated the CEO's and other corporate fat cats.
It's not that difficult to understand; it's really simple math:
No increase in the minimum wage
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No right for working class people to sue huge corporations that maim and kill
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Increased medical costs
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Decreased Medicare and Medicaid benefits
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No ability for working class people to file for bankruptcy while still allowing the filthy rich to consolidate and hide their assets in states such as Florida
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The destruction of Social Security
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A subservient working class totally beholden to the richest one percent of this country.
They are trying to destroy retirement as we know it in this country. People will be forced to work until they drop dead on their job. My extreme visual is the Wal-Mart greeter that pushes your cart to you, then drops over dead.
Anyone who paints Social Security as a retirement plan is either uneducated, uninformed, or lying. If you want to talk about government assisted or sponsored RETIREMENT PLANS, then talk about 401k's, IRA's, or other tax deferred/exempt savings plans.
Social Security was never intended to be a RETIREMENT PLAN, it was intended to be Government sponsored, pay as you go, insurance. What rate of return do you get on your car insurance? Homeowners insurance? Renter's insurance? Life insurance? Medical insurance? You know you could cancel all your insurance, invest that money and probably get a better return; that is until you either wrecked your car, burned your house down or broke your neck.
Social Security is intended to be strictly a mandatory insurance program so that if a person works 40 years for an ENRON, or Worldcom, or Tyco, and gets shafted right when they are ready to retire, they don't jump off a building so their kids have some insurance money to bury them with.
If you need any further information study the effects of the Great Depression.
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Friday, April 15, 2005
Aristocracies In America
Taking away bankruptcy for the middle class, while allowing the filthy rich to still protect their assets through consolidation in certain states, like Florida; elimination of the inheritance tax; limiting the poor and middle class's right to seek monetary damages against huge corporations that kill and maim us; tax policies that shift wealth upward; and on, and on.
The founding fathers were so afraid of aristocracies, Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution states in part: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Noah Webster, Samuel Adams, James Madison — rejected anything that smacked of the stratified aristocracies of Europe. Visiting Europe, Jefferson and Adams wrote of being appalled by concentrations of vast wealth passed down for centuries. Absolutely central to the success of the new republic, they argued, was fair, broad, and equitable distribution of wealth and property.
President Theodore Roosevelt first proposed the current estate tax in 1904 in response to the corruption and excesses of the Gilded Age. Progressive Era reformers feared that if wealth concentration continued unchecked, most of the U.S. population would end up subjects of the robber barons, as Europeans were to their aristocracies. The tax was signed into law in 1916.
Take someone like Bill Gates; whose wealth would probably allow him to buy most of the available real estate in the state of Washington before he passed on. He then, only rents that property, never selling it. Then, he is able to pass that real estate along with his monetary wealth to heirs, who in turn buy another state's real estate and pass it on; it's real life Monopoly. What you end up with, are a few very wealthy individuals that own the nations assets, and everyone else works for them.
Some would think this is acceptable, these are very dangerous individuals, people who's ancestors probably would have fought on the side of the British; these people need to be exorcised form our government.
The founding fathers were so afraid of aristocracies, Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution states in part: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Noah Webster, Samuel Adams, James Madison — rejected anything that smacked of the stratified aristocracies of Europe. Visiting Europe, Jefferson and Adams wrote of being appalled by concentrations of vast wealth passed down for centuries. Absolutely central to the success of the new republic, they argued, was fair, broad, and equitable distribution of wealth and property.
President Theodore Roosevelt first proposed the current estate tax in 1904 in response to the corruption and excesses of the Gilded Age. Progressive Era reformers feared that if wealth concentration continued unchecked, most of the U.S. population would end up subjects of the robber barons, as Europeans were to their aristocracies. The tax was signed into law in 1916.
Take someone like Bill Gates; whose wealth would probably allow him to buy most of the available real estate in the state of Washington before he passed on. He then, only rents that property, never selling it. Then, he is able to pass that real estate along with his monetary wealth to heirs, who in turn buy another state's real estate and pass it on; it's real life Monopoly. What you end up with, are a few very wealthy individuals that own the nations assets, and everyone else works for them.
Some would think this is acceptable, these are very dangerous individuals, people who's ancestors probably would have fought on the side of the British; these people need to be exorcised form our government.
Thursday, April 07, 2005
CNN.com - U.S. delegation visits with Italian officials - Apr 7, 2005
CNN.com - U.S. delegation visits with Italian officials - Apr 7, 2005
Did anyone see Inside Politics on 04-07-05. During video of the Bushes, Clinton and Rice, Laura leaned over to Hubby and told him to not forget to pray for something. What was it? I could read her lips up to that point. She said "Don't forget to pray for......"
Did anyone see Inside Politics on 04-07-05. During video of the Bushes, Clinton and Rice, Laura leaned over to Hubby and told him to not forget to pray for something. What was it? I could read her lips up to that point. She said "Don't forget to pray for......"
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