Outrageous Bush Social Security Lie
Feb. 11th, 2005 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petardierI was listening to NPR yesterday when they reported on Bush's trip in support of his Social Security agenda. They played a clip of Bush saying something like this:
"Young people today have a better chance of seeing a UFO than they do of seeing a Social Security check"
I'm quoting from memory, so I may not be word-perfect on that. I'll try to get the exact quote for you later.
This is scarcely his first lie about Social Security, but it is a whopper. As things stand, if nothing is done about Social Security, SS check will have to be reduced by something between 20 to 30 percent. That would happen somewhere between 2042 and 2052, depending on what estimate you're looking at. And that's only if we don't do something to fix system. Even inaction sounds way better than Bush's privatization "fix" which does nothing to find funds or reduce benefits. Those are the real choices once the smoke and mirrors are swept away.
"Young people today have a better chance of seeing a UFO than they do of seeing a Social Security check"
I'm quoting from memory, so I may not be word-perfect on that. I'll try to get the exact quote for you later.
This is scarcely his first lie about Social Security, but it is a whopper. As things stand, if nothing is done about Social Security, SS check will have to be reduced by something between 20 to 30 percent. That would happen somewhere between 2042 and 2052, depending on what estimate you're looking at. And that's only if we don't do something to fix system. Even inaction sounds way better than Bush's privatization "fix" which does nothing to find funds or reduce benefits. Those are the real choices once the smoke and mirrors are swept away.
