This Post first ran in February of 2005!
Is Social Security Secure?
The short answer is no!
Social security is certain to see its demise in 30 years or so. So, President Bush’s attempt to save this government program is timely.
The Democrats know all this. It is not a secret.
Here’s the problem: The Democrats fear the Republican Party is taking their program… their power base. They have worked long and hard, since FDR put his signature on the first Social Security Act, to create a class of people dependent on Social Security and therefore, dependent on the Democrat Party. Remember, Social Security is, as the name implies, a SOCIAL Program. Since the Democrat Party is, in fact, the Socialist Party in America, they feel they own this program. The Republicans, as they see it, are stealing Social Security right out from under them and, by doing so, the Republicans are further reducing the power of the Democrat Party with voters and, most especially, the Democrat Party’s base.
They’re right! The Republican Party intends to gut the Democrat Party and make the Democrats irrelevant, period.
The Democrats, on the other hand, are furious. They are fearful… and they have a right to be fearful. The American voter has heard the message of the Democrat Party and the American voters rejected it, outright. And they continue to reject it. Plus, voters have watched, and listened, as the Democrat Party has done nothing to gain the confidence of the voters and they vociferously play obstructionist games in Congress. They have been successful in creating an image in the voter’s minds of a Party, which cares nothing for the American people, or for the security of the country, and are concerned, only, with grabbing power and hanging on to it… at any cost.
That is what the American voter sees. The DNC is doing nothing to disabuse the voter of that image of their party, and are, in fact, bolstering it by moving Howard Dean into the leadership position in the DNC.
We have a bold President in George Bush. We have a leader. He is not afraid to strike out on his own. He leads from the front.
Americans admire a leader like Bush. He is the embodiment of the way Americans see themselves. Yes, to our Europeans “Weenie” detractors, George Bush is a “COWBOY”. What the “Old Worlders” fail to understand is… referring to an American, as a cowboy, is the highest praise. Thank you.
So, as the Democrat sun is setting, maybe they should look at themselves to learn the cause of their own demise. They are a deeply wounded political party…and the wounds are self-inflicted.
We wish the President “good luck” as he leads the country in yet another attack on the empty threats and equally empty promises of the Democrat Party.
Some one once said: “Leaders are like Eagles. They don’t flock. You find them one at a time.” Right!
Longstreet
What flavor was that Kool-Aid?
ReplyDeleteYou know (if you've ever read anything) as does everyone else in the world that Social Security is easily fixed with a few minor tweaks. You're just spouting typical Bush lies as you always do. It's really pretty sad.
The fact that the Democrats were able to destroy this idiotic proposal without having any power at all in any level of government quite clearly means that the "intelligent people" in both aisles were able to see through it.
Sounds to me like a severe case of "cutting off your nose to spite your face"!
ReplyDeleteI'm "aging out" so, whether Social Security survives, or not, is of little importance ... to me. But, for a political party to deliberately set about to ensure it's demise, as the Democrat party is doing, is shameful.
"Tweaking", as you say, will not do it. The taxpayers are at the point of rebellion now with your tweaking the "retirement" age upwards. The baby boomers are in for one hell of a surprize! We have a generation of self-centered Americans who believe, religiously, in their entitlement to the government dole. It isn't going to be there. (Not to the degree they expect.) The generation which follows, immediately, the baby boomer generation sees no point in the survival of a program for which they can expect to derive no benefits. So, America cannot expect their support to ensure the survival of the SS program.
You may refer to looking at the unvarnished truth and dealing with it head-on as the Kool-Aid Treatment if you like. But when the defecation hits the rotary oscillator, guess who will have the fewer stains.
The first step to killing social security is to privatize it.
ReplyDeleteThis is a plan to funnel public money to a few select people on wall street. Sorry if you can't see it for what it truly is. Maybe if we made firms haddle the social security money at no charge to the government just for allowing them to be in business and reaping the benefits of being an American Company, then maybe I could support it, but then the big firms that support it now would be opposed, (no jance to rip off all that money).