Who's scaring people about Social Security? You are, Dubya! Shame on you!

[flpoljunkie]

``I fully understand the power of those who want to derail a Social Security agenda by, you know, scaring people,'' Bush said.

Can you believe this? Bush said this during his press conference and not one journalist had the balls to explain to Bush that Social Security would not only not go bankrupt or bust, but will be able to pay 80% of benefits due in 2042!

What a lying scum Dubya is, and what lapdogs are our SCLM! Our media is basically non functional--and at a time when our nation and the world needs them to do their jobs so desperately.

[pinto]

1. check out Gary Markstein's cartoon (Copley News), it's the 1/19 piece...

(it's copy protected, but here's the link)

https://www.copleynews.com/1cns/SSINavigation/query.idq?TemplateName=query&HTMLQueryForm=query.htm&RECENT=1&OriginalQuery=%22GARY%20MARKSTEIN%22&CISORT=DATE

[flpoljunkie]

2. And Dubya is going to rush out soon and try to sell this turkey, like he

sold tax cuts. Forget the media telling Amerikuns the truth. It is up to us and likeminded citizens.

[snippy]

3. Republicans recently described their plan to use the "politics of fear"

as a part of their strategy for deceiving and manipulating the public about Bush's plan for privatizing Social Security.

Social Security Push to Tap the GOP Faithful
Campaign's Tactics Will Drive Appeal

By Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, January 14, 2005; Page A06

President Bush plans to reactivate his reelection campaign's network of donors and activists to build pressure on lawmakers to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, according to Republican strategists.

White House allies are launching a market-research project to figure out how to sell the plan in the most comprehensible and appealing way, and Republican marketing and public-relations gurus are building teams of consultants to promote it, the strategists said.

The campaign will use Bush's campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never deviating from the script and using the politics of fear to build support -- contending that a Social Security financial crisis is imminent when even Republican figures show it is decades away.

. . .

In addition to their own efforts, White House and RNC officials are working closely with the same outside groups that helped Bush win reelection in 2004, especially Progress for America, a political organization with close ties to Rove. RNC officials have privately told top congressional aides they will work with Progress for America and others to provide political cover through television ads supporting the Bush position and condemning those who oppose it. To coincide with Bush's new drive, Progress for America is running a television ad on Fox and CNN that compares Bush to Franklin Roosevelt, the father of Social Security.

The group also phoned or e-mailed Republicans, culled from its list of more than 1 million supporters, to enlist their help in selling the Bush plan, either by donating money or talking up the plan to neighbors. Brian McCabe, a spokesman for the group, said it is applying the lessons it learned electing a president to selling a public policy.

. . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7797-200 ...

Democrats should be talking about the fact that the republicans have announced that they intend to use misinformation, campaign style rallies and tactics, and the "politics of fear" to persuade people to support Bush's plan.

[flpoljunkie]

4. Thanks for posting this. Flim-flam man begins hard sell next week.

Media, step up to the plate and tell the American people the truth about Social Security. Do not let yourself be used as a uncritical mouthpiece for these liars!