"Bush Warns Congress on Social Security"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush tried to increase pressure on members of Congress who are leery of his ideas to change Social Security by telling them Tuesday they could be risking their jobs.

"I happen to believe people who have been elected to office who ignore problems will face a price at the ballot box," Bush said during a forum with voters who support his goal of creating private investment accounts to partly replace guaranteed benefits.

Democrats say that they, too, will make an issue of Social Security in the midterm elections. "Republicans should be worried," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Jano Cabrera. "Whether Republicans are cutting benefits, raising taxes, or further exploding the budget deficit, Democrats intend to make Social Security a key issue in 2006."

Social Security is projected to start paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes in 2018, according to Social Security trustees but will be able to pay full promised benefits until 2042. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected the program will be solvent until 2052.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050112/D87IIS8G0.html

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[havocmom]

1. When he makes threats about ballot box, I bet their little ears prick up

Since they know that is no idle threat and actually has nothing to do with the wishes of voters.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I was thinking the exact same thing.

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[havocmom]

3. See, that papersless voting thing is a twofer for the junta.

Programming the voting machines means never having to say you're sorry AND you get to be the biggest bully on any block in D.C.

[stray cat]

4. CNN called it making threats.

Bush is a bully. We need to back politicians who stand up to Bush - republican or democrat - to try to provide some cover.

[Al-CIAda]

5. President of Fabricated Crises

President of Fabricated Crises
washingtonpost.com
By Harold Meyerson
Wednesday, January 12, 2005; Page A21

Some presidents make the history books by managing crises. Lincoln had Fort Sumter, Roosevelt had the Depression and Pearl Harbor, and Kennedy had the missiles in Cuba. George W. Bush, of course, had Sept. 11, and for a while thereafter -- through the overthrow of the Taliban -- he earned his page in history, too.

But when historians look back at the Bush presidency, they're more likely to note that what sets Bush apart is not the crises he managed but the crises he fabricated. The fabricated crisis is the hallmark of the Bush presidency. To attain goals that he had set for himself before he took office -- the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the privatization of Social Security -- he concocted crises where there were none.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2304-2005Jan11.html

[ooglymoogly]

6. wow!!! what a great article....nailing the burning bush

meyerson better watch the planes he flies on very carefully