http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/4/83318/07155Social Security: Don't buy the Fear Factor!
by Jim McDermott
Fri Mar 4th, 2005 at 08:33:18 EST
"Fear does work, yes. You can make people do anything if they're afraid."
Some of you may remember this line of mine from Fahrenheit 9/11. Some of you also know me as the most liberal member of the House, or the perennial champion of single-payer health care, or -- in the footsteps of Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith and Walter Reuther -- as President of Americans for Democratic Action.
Today I'd like to share my thoughts as a very senior Democrat on Ways and Means (the committee of jurisdiction on Social Security) ... and as the world's least senior blogger.
You can take the President at his word when he says "I want you to think about a Social Security system that will be flat bust, bankrupt". Of course he does. Remember when all he wanted you to think about was nerve gas, smallpox and mushroom clouds?
Iraq didn't have Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Social Security isn't going bankrupt....."
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