FactCheck.org Bush Proposes Slowing Growth of Social Security Benefits for Future Retirees

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.