Bush Accused of Scaring Public on Social Security

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Bush Accused of Scaring Public on Social Security
(http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-RETIREMENT-RHETORIC-DC.XML)

Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:04 PM ET

By Donna Smith

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opponents of President Bush's plan to restructure the Social Security retirement system accused the White House on Friday of using scare tactics to win support for private investment accounts.

At a forum sponsored by Senate Democrats, former Clinton administration Social Security official James Roosevelt invoked the name of his grandfather, President Franklin Roosevelt, to say the program did not face a "crisis" or "bankruptcy" as suggested by the administration.

He said "adjustments," but not a major overhaul, were needed to address the financial strains faced by the program created by his grandfather in 1935.

"These are scare tactics designed to create fear," he said. "These attempts to divide grandparents, parents and children on the issue are an attack on the most successful program this country has ever had."

The White House has launched a major campaign to build public support for Bush's plan to allow workers to invest some of their Social Security taxes in stocks and bonds through private accounts....
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[Scuba Pete]

"These are scare tactics designed to create fear,"

This is how they control the whole country and got re-elected. Do you honestly think they would abandon a winning method now???

 

[TranceAm]

This is how they control the whole country

With 10.000 nukes you can make that "Control the whole world." After all it is always the other side that makes it "Mutual Assured Destruction."

and got re-elected. Do you honestly think they would abandon a winning method now???

An American......... In fear? How can the righteous have fear?

The moral right wing religious that were (En Masse, So the claims go.) the reason they were voted in, are stampeding the valley of the shadows in fear?

After that famous speech with the quote: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"? (FDR)

:woohoo:

"I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world -- in the field of advertizing -- and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency ... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious ... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours ... and we tend to disbelieve ours. --a Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S."

:biglaugh: