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dude1394 · 01-08-2005, 02:34 PM

Interesting comments from Patrick Ruffini.. It turns out there IS an evil plan by the republicans with respect to social security....it's to make you RICH!...

So much like welfare before it, the democrat party is trying to preserve for retirees.....$926/month. Just enough to keep you on the dole I gues..

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ruffini

Disregard the fact that the attribution of the leaked Social Security "memo" marked "not for attribution" likely amounts to a severe breach of the sacred compact between any journalist and any source. Ignore the fact that an off-the-record exchange can now be considered on-the-record and suitable for the front page should a journalist whisper it in another journalist's ear.

Let's focus on something that folks in Washington's media-industrial complex rarely like to discuss: the substance of the debate.

In the last few weeks, the Democratic strategy to distort the truth about personal accounts has congealed. Here's what they're going to do. They're going to claim that Social Security's solvency crisis is no more than a "myth", a ruse for the Republicans "hidden agenda" to "dismantle" the program. They're going to ignore the mathematical certainty that a relatively static number of workers cannot indefinetely support a mushrooming number of retirees. And as the White House official (on blogs, we attribute correctly) adeptly points out, this certainty is compounded by the wage indexation of benefits -- meaning that no matter how quickly tax revenues grow, benefits will grow just as fast, making it impossible for traditional Social Security to ever close this funding gap.

But let's leave aside the question of solvency. The bottom line of this whole debate remains that modernizing Social Security with personal accounts is the right thing to do. Even if Social Security were perfectly solvent, it would still be the right thing to do. You accuse us of having a "hidden agenda." Let's spell out in clear terms of what that "hidden agenda" actually is.

The status quo that Democrats are so desperately defending is this: an average benefit of that's a paltry $926 a month, $11,112 a year. Seventy years of New Deal largesse, and this is the best you can do for seniors with no other retirement savings? The opportunity to make life dramatically better through significantly higher Social Security benefits lies before us, and your "solution" is simply to postpone doom?

Fiscal realities aside, that's a choice that's morally indefensible.
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Because Republicans do have an evil "hidden agenda."
To make you rich.

01-08-2005, 02:34 PM	#1
dude1394 Guru Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 40,410	The evil plan of republicans for social security Interesting comments from Patrick Ruffini.. It turns out there IS an evil plan by the republicans with respect to social security....it's to make you RICH!... So much like welfare before it, the democrat party is trying to preserve for retirees.....$926/month. Just enough to keep you on the dole I gues.. -------------------------- ruffini Disregard the fact that the attribution of the leaked Social Security "memo" marked "not for attribution" likely amounts to a severe breach of the sacred compact between any journalist and any source. Ignore the fact that an off-the-record exchange can now be considered on-the-record and suitable for the front page should a journalist whisper it in another journalist's ear. Let's focus on something that folks in Washington's media-industrial complex rarely like to discuss: the substance of the debate. In the last few weeks, the Democratic strategy to distort the truth about personal accounts has congealed. Here's what they're going to do. They're going to claim that Social Security's solvency crisis is no more than a "myth", a ruse for the Republicans "hidden agenda" to "dismantle" the program. They're going to ignore the mathematical certainty that a relatively static number of workers cannot indefinetely support a mushrooming number of retirees. And as the White House official (on blogs, we attribute correctly) adeptly points out, this certainty is compounded by the wage indexation of benefits -- meaning that no matter how quickly tax revenues grow, benefits will grow just as fast, making it impossible for traditional Social Security to ever close this funding gap. But let's leave aside the question of solvency. The bottom line of this whole debate remains that modernizing Social Security with personal accounts is the right thing to do. Even if Social Security were perfectly solvent, it would still be the right thing to do. You accuse us of having a "hidden agenda." Let's spell out in clear terms of what that "hidden agenda" actually is. The status quo that Democrats are so desperately defending is this: an average benefit of that's a paltry $926 a month, $11,112 a year. Seventy years of New Deal largesse, and this is the best you can do for seniors with no other retirement savings? The opportunity to make life dramatically better through significantly higher Social Security benefits lies before us, and your "solution" is simply to postpone doom? Fiscal realities aside, that's a choice that's morally indefensible. ....... Because Republicans do have an evil "hidden agenda." To make you rich. __________________ "Yankees fans who say “flags fly forever’’ are right, you never lose that. It reinforces all the good things about being a fan. ... It’s black and white. You (the Mavs) won a title. That’s it and no one can say s--- about it.’’