WP: Bush Refocuses on Domestic Priorities (Social Security, Energy, Taxes)

[Pirate Smile]

Bush Refocuses on Domestic Priorities
He Urges Pressure on Congress Over Social Security, Energy and Tax Plans

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 14, 2005; Page A02

President Bush, fresh from a European trip and a White House summit with Central American leaders, returned to his troubled domestic agenda yesterday and tried to ratchet up pressure on a balky Congress to pass his Social Security, energy, legal liability, health care and tax proposals.

At a speech before the National Association of Realtors conference in Washington, the president ticked off the legislative priorities still awaiting action on Capitol Hill and said they were key to his broader efforts to strengthen the economy.

"We've got an important agenda here in Washington," Bush said. "It's an agenda to keep this country prosperous and safe and free."

As he has since launching his second term in January, Bush devoted the bulk of his time to Social Security, which he wants to restructure to add personal investment accounts and head off long-term financial shortfalls. Under the Bush plan, the growth in future benefits would be scaled back for middle- and upper-income recipients, and Americans born after 1950 would be allowed to divert part of their Social Security payroll taxes to government-run stock-and-bond accounts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051301375.html

Bush, please keep talking about SSI. Keep telling everyone their benefits will be cut, and now the widows and orphans will also get theirs cut too. Keep talking.

[Rose Siding]

1. His biggest applause line

was about cutting the cost of health ins for employers:

...The roomful of Realtors leapt to their feet for a prolonged ovation.

[Melodybe]

2. Sure we just got the smoking gun that PROVES without a doubt that Iraq

is a lie, why wouldn't he want to focus on domestic issues.

[ogradda]

3. Every time he looks at social programs

there's less of them to look at. Snipity snip snip snip.

[Mountainman]

4. By God this country is going to gets its dose of conservatism if it kills

itself!

Everyday a new group of non wealthy folks gets screwed by Bush. You are supposed to work for less yet save for retirement, pay for your own health care, while you watch the cost of housing and everything else go out of site and with no safety net if you fail. And still these fucks will vote for repubs because queers want to get married and women want to kill thier unborn babies.

[damntexdem]

5. Screwed up the world enough for a while --

time to destroy America.

[devinsgram]

6. He can focus. I never got that memo.

[bemildred]

7. "Bush flees from Iraqi disaster." nt