Bush Urged to Address Soc. Sec. Insolvency

[jefferson_dem]

Bush Urged to Address Soc. Sec. Insolvency

By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON - President Bush, trying to build support for overhauling Social Security, was urged by a Republican lawmaker Thursday to reveal how he would fix the retirement program's looming insolvency problem.


Bush has talked for weeks about his proposal to create a system of private investment accounts for Social Security but has acknowledged that those accounts would not solve the program's financial problems. He has not said how he would address the insolvency issue but has invited members of Congress to propose solutions.


The president met with House GOP members to talk about Social Security, part of an ongoing series of discussions. Rep. Jim Kolbe (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., said he told Bush "the time has come where we've got to start to put some specifics out there about how we're going to fix the solvency of it."


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Some Republicans are urging Bush to switch focus from private accounts to the insolvency issue, believing that would put recalcitrant Democrats on the spot to come up with solutions.

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[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Ummm...those recalcitrant Democrats

have offered solutions! It's the arrogant Republicans that put their fingers in their ears and start humming the Star Spangled Banner! :grr:

[grumpy old fart]

2. How's he gonna come up with a "plan".....

when all he really wants is to loot and destroy the program. That's, of course, why he's not put any "plan" forward to date. He has no interest in fixing the projected shortfall, it's all about getting $$$ into wall street's hands.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. This will fade away as quickly as WMD in Iraq did.

Apparently, rove met his match on this one,they aren't campaigning against a person so he is at a loss about what to do. The old tricks won't work, no way to spin, lie, to bring in the gay scare or Jesus, or to attack their way to success.

[Democrats_win]

4. His credibility is gone, stench of his wars, failed economy & gas prices

are all that is left of this lame duck.

[yellowcanine]

5. Yep - too late, shrubmeister. Your political capital account is in

deficit.

[7th_Sephiroth]

6. oh man, i'd love to see that

bush trying to 'splain complex math

[redqueen]

7. Why are Republican lawmakers so STUPID? Does he not know Medicare

is the MUCH more critical issue?

These people make me sick.

[Frances]

8. Republicans are SMART

The Repubs are against medicare and social security. The way to get rid of those programs is to get the U.S. so far in debt that the U.S. has to cancel medicare AND social security.

The worst thing about medicare is that the drug companies gave Bush millions for his campaigns. To pay them back, Bush then added a drug benefit to medicare. This law benefits NOT people on medicare, but it does benefit the drug companies. And it costs the tax payers billions. (Remember when people testified that they were told they would lose their jobs if they gave the correct numbers to Congress.)

When you reach 65, the Repubs will say, "Sorry. There's no money left for you. Sucker!"

[Vincardog]

9. Exactly he already looted Medicaid and wants to rape SS

Nothing is safe from being sacrificed at the alter to honor MONEY.
Remember what JESUS did when the money worshipers had taken over the temple?

[gkhouston]

10. Hush, you...

we're not supposed to actually read our Bibles... just thump on 'em for emphasis...

[Wright Patman]

11. What * needs to do

is go on a worldwide speaking tour of all the various countries to whom we owe big bucks, such as China, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, etc.

He can take along the photos he had taken a few weeks back of him in front of the filing cabinets where the hard copies of their worthless U.S. Treasury bonds are located.

After all, he seems to be concerned that the average Joe American does not realize that the U.S. government has no intention of making good on its promises to him, so why not inform the rest of the world as well? It's only fair.

The popular 1950s phrase "as sound as a dollar" is being replaced by the 18th century "not worth a continental."

[Javaman]

12. Here is an example of our colossal fuckwit* prez...

"Bush has talked for weeks about his proposal to create a system of private investment accounts for Social Security but has acknowledged that those accounts would not solve the program's financial problems. He has not said how he would address the insolvency issue but has invited members of Congress to propose solutions."

So let me get this straight, he comes up with a non-plan for SS, stating that it desperately needs to be fixed and that one solution will be the private accounts, but then recants and says that the private accounts won't do anything to help the insolvency of SS. Then pressed for his plan to fix the insolvency, he doesn't have one!!! What a fucking asshole. Plain and simple.

Basically saying, "I don't have a clue, maybe you have an idea?" What the fuck is going on here?

He's saying that SS in trouble, yet he tauts a plan that doesn't deal with the issue?????

The private accounts are nothing more than money making deals for the gov't at our expense.

Just another example of morons* short attention span theater. "oh, you want me to actually fix it? Damn, that would require HARD WORK and thinking"

Each day and in every way, just when I think he has done or said the most stupid thing in the universe, he out does himself once again. What a complete and utter embarrassment, he is.