Get off her a$$!! She took out Thurman in '02 and she is an effective Representative for having so little tenure. She also represents the most SS recipients in the nation, she has to walk carefully.
Let's have a full blown plan from someone instead of this coy "open to any ideas" crap. How can she support what isn't out there yet????
The "open to any ideas" approach is a perfectly appropriate way for a President to interact with congress and it is how Bush has succeeded in the past: create guiding principles but let Congress draft the bill. What's happening now though is that Congress is too timid to make the tough decisions and trade-offs that will be required for Social Security reform. I think Bush needs to expedite the timetable, hold Senate hearings shortly to discuss the options, and then issue a detailed plan (which is done in partnership with leading GOP senate leaders on this issue like Graham). I hope Rove and Co. don't have their plan etched in stone because right now, because with a lack of public support and wary Republicans, it appears the wheels are coming off.
If you really understood what a theft of meager earnings for the poorest people in our society that Social Security represents, then you would be shouting in the streets to end Social Security NOW! If just 3% of income (not 12%)-$375.00 were consistently deposited into a Mutual fund that tracks the S&P 500 for 58 years, then even a minimum-wage earner could retire a millionaire.
Instead, the Government operates this Ponzi scheme, that would send any body else who proposed it to prison. Stop supporting the political gravy train.
Maybe that you just don't care about the least important people in society, but I am talking about you. Will you retire more than a millionaire? You could, if you had just done as I, and the president, suggest. You should really be upset that this amount of your paycheck has not been invested for you. It has been paid out, and borrowed away.
RE: Get off her a$$!
No! Purge her.