As White House Begins Campaign for Overhauling Social Security, Critics Cl

As White House Begins Campaign for Overhauling Social Security, Critics Claim Exaggeration

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 - In the first phase of a strategy to build support for overhauling Social Security, White House officials are planning to describe the retirement program as a system in "crisis" whose promises to younger workers are a "fiction.".....
But opponents of Mr. Bush's approach say he is greatly exaggerating the problems to sell his plan to scale back Social Security, the government's biggest and oldest social program.
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The government's long-term projections for Social Security have become more optimistic over the last eight years. Since 1997, government actuaries have pushed back the date of projected insolvency from 2029 to 2042.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, using different assumptions, predicts that the trust fund will last even longer, until 2052.
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Democratic lawmakers, pledging to protect what they regard as one of their party's most enduring achievements, insist that Social Security's problems can be easily fixed by tweaks to payroll taxes and benefit formulas.

"Their strategy is, we're going to scare people, cut benefits, privatize and call it a reform agenda," said Representative Rahm Emanuel, Democrat of Illinois.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/politics/10social.html?oref=login

out and in the St. Peterburg Times this Sunday. They talking about Casino security...

tell senators not to support Bush**'s plan and the Senator's (Specter) mailbox was full. Rpigs don't pay attention to citzens' appeals anyway, so I probably wasted my time even calling.

Bush= theft of the treasury

the administration's propaganda with a slogan like "Social Security crisis - Bush's 2005 Weapons of Mass Destruction"! In 2002 Bush lied about the WMD, about the grave and gathering threat and about the 9-11 link! In 2005, he is focused on domestic issues so he's lying about SS.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again!

the one next year? And the one the year after that? (Rinse and Repeat).

Our national deficits are humongous and Bush wants to make tax cuts permanent which will make them worse!

If he was serious about dealing with fiscal crisis, he'd deal with the immediate ones first.

Since he's not doing that, we can assume that he's not really interested in dealing with fiscal crises, he's interested in something else. What could that be?

Crony capitalism, the "piratization" of Social Security. His friends looting the treasury in yet another way.