Reply #26: Not a troll. Just ignorant. GOP talking point since forever. W predicted

[robbedvoter]

Soc Security demise in 10 years in...1978. (like all the wingnuts)

According to Gary Ott, who was then a reporter for the Plainview Daily Herald, Bush stopped by the paper’s little office “maybe five or six times. He’d sit down at my desk; he was a fun guy. He was very outgoing, very friendly, and we would argue politics since I was a liberal. We’d argue over Carter policies.” Bush criticized energy policy, federal land use policy, subsidized housing, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“a misuse of power,” he said), and he warned that Social Security would go bust in ten years unless people were given a chance to invest the money themselves. None of this really distinguished him from Hance, though, so in the end Bush simply argued that a Republican could better represent the district: “If you want a chance in the way Congress has been run, send someone who will be independent from those who will run the Congress.”
http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/midland.html


I hope you won't be very offended if having to chose between you and W on one side and Paul Krugman on the other, I'll go with Paul :shrug: