What is the purpose of BUSH in trying to privatize social security? Please use some logic. Any good links?
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He was trying to give the individual control over his/her account to make sure you would get what you actually put in to it. Of course, this pissed off the demoncrats because if he did that, they could not get it and give it away for votes anymore. Bush also felt like a person being able to control their money and invest in the stock market would be able to increase their retirement account.\n\nHe has given up on it because of liberals and the news media bombarding him at every turn and calling him evil for wanting to give each of us control over our own money. We truly live in a strange country where you are considered evil for not wanting to give all your money away and for wanting to have a decent retirement. You are also considered evil for opposing some immoral lifestyles too even if they go against everything you believe.\n\nYou see, free speech is only free for liberals. if you are conservative or a Christian, you have no free speech anymore and liberals will shout you down every time you bring up a point. They actually do not have an argument so they have to just be loud to drown you out. Typical liberal tactic because theirs is a fact less society that runs on fear.
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It bugs me too, Bush has screwed up Iraq, Gave tax breaks to the WEALTHY and is giving money to major companies whose CEO's make Millions a year. So what about the CEO of a huge company going into retirement comfortably, while the average Joe struggles? Gas prices are hard on me, Gas isn't cheap, and I'm drive alot, which in turn, burns gas. $3.00 a gallon isn't great at all, infact, IT SUCKS. If they keep going, my paycheck will mostly go to gas. Thats not fair. \n\nBush may of wanted to drill in Alaska, but he would ruin the envrionment, and alls the republicans care about it MONEY $$$$$, they don't give a crap about the envrionment. \n\nAll in all, This sucks, I say, don't let those CEO's get tax breaks, make them spend money, and make those will all the cash, help fix up the envrionment instead of spending it on a fancy boat, or an estate.
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Bush and his running mate are for keeping the money in there small circle of the wealthy.(Big business and corporations.)The middle to low income makeing republicans foolishly believe the money will flow downhill!Bushonomics (the rich get richer and the poor,well, they just stay poor.
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President Bush main objective is to cater to the speacial interest groups. It seems all Americas object to amnesty think about it saying to pay back taxes, fines,etc,etc will only increase fraud illgeals can make documents showing they been here 40 years and still have the same job. Bush and congress want any plan on their terms even if it's objected by the American people. Bush is only selling his plan without taking into account what the American people want
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Bush is no Christian, if he was he would not allow all these things to happen to our country. I believe that this man was born to destroy America. The first thing he did was to take the surplus, that everyone in this country worked so hard for, and distribute it amongs his round table friends. Thank God he was not given a chance to put our Social security dollars in the stock market, a place where his frinds could make billions more on the hard working class. Given enough time, this man would cause more damage to our country, and the world, than the evil Hitler himself.....KECK
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I think the way to fix social security is to put a lid on benefits. Why? I'll tell you.\n\nRemember that big news story where they talked about marketing targeted at kids, for cereal, and toys etc? Ok.\nHow's granny different? Rascal scooters, medications, rubber underwear, canes, in-home medical services, vitamin drinks, assisted-living homes, goods and services. You never see a price tag on stuff like that on TV anymore, it's assumed you'll find out how much it costs and pay it if you want to. The other assumption is that you'll just 'pass the savings' on to medicare. Medicare, mediscare, mediscam, whatever. Social security is 'free money for old people', and so's medicare. SO: You're out to make money. Old people can be kind of dim-witted, they'll sign anything, right? Not really a lot out there in the way of consumer protections for em. Medicine's Big Business these days. It's GOOD for them when granny gets sick, because whether she pays, or the government pays, they're still gettin' paid, at the end of the day. These guys will charge whatever they want. Why? Because they understand the power of the vote, too, and that it's legal for people to basically vote themselves more money. So, they jack up their fees, granny needs more money, her family helps her out, government gives an extra supplement, all's well with the world...until NEXT year, when they do it AGAIN. There's patterns, here, and they've already taken down a couple HMO's for this stuff, but to my knowledge there's no anti-elderly-racketeering laws out there. Probably hellishly hard to prove, too. I think oversight's a stony bitch of a job, and since everyone wants granny to be 'safe' from this stuff, they call on the government to try and sort it out. \nDoctors dont' go into medicine to serve humanity, they go into medicine to make a buck. Several HUNDRED thousand dollars a year, in some cases, if not more. Medicine's highly profitable, and it cuts right to the heart of the matter, no pun intended. How much are YOUR friends and relatives worth? \n\nBottom line, as usual, americans are being sold a bill of goods, for too high a price. Promises, promises.
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I think Bush rationalizes what he's doing by saying to himself "I'm building out an infrastructure (by helping to set up new markets in the middle east: Iraq) which will buy us Americans more time to recover from the Ecomomic bust of the Dotcom/Market crash with lower overall costs to us (cheaper gas).  \n\nBut what he's really doing is supplying us with our Chemical Dependancy for two minutes longer and then we'll all have to go cold turkey when the entire world turns to us and says "Look you guys are just wrong."\n\nOn a positive note...Americans aren't stupid.  We know this is all BS and want out of this situation.  We don't want to piss everyone off.....just the French.  GM has this new commerical where they are talking about using Corn Oil as fuel.   I'm blown away....that's huge!  That's got to be the most revolutionary concept for a major American corporation since the Ford Assembly Line.  I'm fu*kin buying GM!
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Social security was a bad fix for a problem a LONG time ago.  You can thank the new deal for this horrible system we have today.  Your social security that you pay for does not go into some big fund that grows until you retire, instead it is instantly used up to pay for current retirees.  This works as long as you have more working adults than retirees, a situation that might not always be the case. (Especially if we continue to let in illegals, and then give them amnesty, more people able to draw retirement who didn't pay into it, sounds fair to a liberal!)\n\nHow do we reform the system, there are a lot of ways!  But nothing will get done if every time it is even mentioned every single democrat without thinking yells "Stop taking money from the elderly!"  They will oppose any effort at reform in any social program, so I guess our only hope is to stop electing democrats.\n\nNotice I didn't say electing republicans was the answer either, try electing some independents who support your issues! The 2 party system is quite possibly the worst thing to happen to our beautiful democracy.
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Why not allow anyone in the US to buy into Medicare?  If the principle is for the government to negotiate better pricing for our healthcare, it seems they would have better leverage with a larger base of citizens (and hence larger volumes involved in their "purchases" and contracts.)  Or am I misunderstanding what Medicare's purpose is?
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Your link looks like a pension question, but you are using it for national health care purposes??? Would you rather ask about Social Security to make it more relevant?\n\nYou can get more information about this issue and analysis of the health-care problem from all the angles at the link below.\n\nLaissez-faire health-care economics makes no sense. Markets are good for some things, bad for much and  immoral for health-care. Markets can function efficiently if people have choices. There is no choice in your health-care requirements. If you have congestive heart failure, you can't say to yourself, "Ah, I don't need the attention of a thoracic surgeon this week, I'll put it off until next week."\nOr, "I don't have any need for cancer right now, I'll take indigestion instead."\n\nTherefore, a market solution will only distribute our health resources inefficiently and inequitably. Rich hypochondriacs get all the care they "need" while poor folks with bad hearts let their conditions deteriorate until they need the most expensive care available.\n\nOur high malpractice problems and claims are a direct result of having no national health insurance. When those poor folks who can't afford health-care finally are faced with a heart attack or some other acute episode, they head to the hospital to a doctor they've most likely never seen with no medical records to speak of. The doctors are "flying blind" trying to save the patients not knowing the full array of ailments, allergies, etc they might have.
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You're mixing apples and oranges. And why shouldn't retired people be taxed. Aren't they still American citizens? Why should they be exempt? Some retirees are wealthy, you want to exempt them too? \nHonestly, I think some people in this world want to be taken care of by the government from cradle to grave!
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Bush (President) is doing a good job--for the super-rich corporate interests. The little people are only here, to provide wealth to the super-greedy, some of whom own the private Federal Reserve.  The tax-collecting division of the Fed, the IRS, shakes down the little people, to provide tax payments (not even covering the interest) that go toward whittling down the National Debt. (Your taxes do not pay for government.)
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because it is own by corporate America and corporation are who pay the president large amounts of money to pass bills in their favor. blame Bush, it works for everything else!
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Another problem many people have with social security privatization is the financial risk factor.  While it is safe to say something has to be done or SS will run out, which is total risk, I'm speaking as if both privatization and the current system were indefinate.\n   With the current system, while there isn't going to be enough money in like 20 yrs., the money that is in SS is safe.  It draws very little interest, like your banks simple savings account, but can 99.99% be assured it will be there tommorow and the day after, so on.  With putting the money into the market, you adopt risks similiar to the stock market.  You might draw a much higher interest on your retirment investment, but one good crash or another Enron and your SS is gone.  I think the government would have to back up SS money that is privatized for it to be comfortable, say they'll cover your initial investment only.  It'd be a pitiful amount as if you save for retirment for 40+ years it is the interest and not the principal that looks good on the statment, but it would be something.
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The solution to our oligarchical political system isn't to get politicians to live off of social security instead of their tidy "pension."\n\nMost congresspersons and senators are so well-entrenched in economic and social power that they make tons of money through stocks, bonds, other investments, outside businesses, etc.\n\nIf you want a fair social security system, you must first:\n\n1.  Impose significant campaign finance reforms. This way, the most intelligent candidate--not the richest--will win.\n2.  Elect intelligent candidates from a working class background who are capable of empathizing with the needs of America's shrinking middle/lower-middle class.\n\nOnly then can we get real legislation that reflects the needs of the populus.
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Well, let's see:\nHalliburton, the well connected to Bush administration company, has been overcharging the military right and left, and continues to get contracts.\nAlmost every week another Bush appointee gets into trouble for failing to perform their function, FEMA, EPA, Federal Reserve...\nK street project, which barred lobbying companies from the White House unless they hired Republican operatives.\nFailure to include or even media attacks against press that write negatively about Bush.\nTax cuts for the wealthy, environmental laws relaxed,political appointments for 'Pioneer' club campaign donors....\nAnd NOW we have the Bush administration claiming the right to send law enforcement into Congressional offices to search and seize.\nYep, we are well on our way.\n\nAmerica is being dismantled before our eyes.  Vote the opposition back into Congress before it's too late.  They put checks against each other that prevent this kind of shenanigans.
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I agree. The Government is not working FOR the people, it's working for the rich. There is no middle class. Only the rich, and the working poor.  Bush is the worst President in the history of the United States, and his record will speak for itself.