DESPERATE DEMS RETURN TO FALSE SOCIAL SECURITY ATTACKSPresident Has A Plan; Kerry Only Has Same, Tired Scare Tactics
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Posted on 10/18/2004 8:16:49 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
Monday, October 18, 2004
Desperate Dems Return To False Social Security Attacks
DESPERATE DEMS RETURN TO FALSE SOCIAL SECURITY ATTACKS
President Has A Plan; Kerry Only Has Same, Tired Scare Tactics
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“You remember what happened in the campaign in 2000? They said, if George W. gets elected, they’re going to take away the checks of the seniors on Social Security. … [I]t didn’t happen. So when they try and say it again in 2004, don’t believe them.” (President George W. Bush, Remarks At Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 10/1/04)
SOME DEMS TAKE ISSUE WITH SCARE TACTICS
Late Sen. Moynihan: “Privatization” Is “Scare Word.” MOYNIHAN: “Let me just answer that. This is not privatization. The same Social Security provisions that are in existence today will continue. We will add a provision that is the same – almost identical to that which federal employees including the three of us – I’m not – I just don’t want, because I’m not in politics, I want to say that’s not a proper characterization. That’s a scare word.” (Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), Press Conference, 5/4/00)
Representative Charles Stenholm (D-TX) Said Calling Personal Accounts “Privatization” Is “Less Than Honest.” “I happen to be an individual very supportive of personal accounts. To those that continue to use the word privatization, that’s less than honest a description of what we’re talking about.” (Ways And Means Subcommittee On Social Security, U.S. House Of Representatives, Hearing, 3/6/02)
CANDIDATE KERRY HAS NO PLAN FOR SOCIAL SECURITY
Cost Of Doing Nothing: $10 Trillion. Sen. Kerry does not address the $10 trillion funding gap in Social Security. “[T]he remaining long run financing gap that program reforms must ultimately close is $10.4 trillion in present value.”(Social Security Administration Website, “2004 OASDI Trustees Report,” http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR04/IV_LRest.html#wp239829 , Accessed 10/18/04)
John Kerry’s Plan: “Ignore It And Hope The Problem Will Go Away.” “Sen. John Kerry has said he won’t consider personal investment accounts, raising the retirement age or cutting benefits. So far, his answer has been to talk about the need for economic growth. In other words, ignore it and hope the problem will go away.” (Matt Moore, Op-Ed, “SOCIAL SECURITY: Bush’s Reform Plan Bests His Opponent’s No-Plan Approach,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 10/17/04)
“Kerry Has Not Laid Out A Clear Path To Solvency For Social Security And Medicare.”(Janet Hook, “Major Fiscal Worries Not On Anyone’s Agenda,” Los Angeles Times, 7/27/04)
Magazine Said “No Serious Economist” Believes Kerry Solution Will Work. “In 1996, Senator Kerry argued that America needed to consider bold options in pensions reform, including raising the retirement age and means-testing pension benefits. Now he rejects that position, claiming economic growth will fix America’s pension problem. … No serious economist believes such a blasé approach will work.”(“The Problem With Kerrynomics,” The Economist, 5/1/04)
PRESIDENT BUSH’S PLAN WILL NOT RAISE TAXES, CUT BENEFITS
President Bush Promises “No Changes In Benefits For Current Retirees And Near-Retirees.”(Bush-Cheney ‘04 Website, “A Plan For Promoting An Era Of Ownership,” www.georgebush.com, Accessed 10/18/04)
President Bush Has Plan For Personal Retirement Accounts For Younger Workers. “Voluntary personal retirement accounts for younger workers … would give workers ownership, control, and the opportunity to use their Social Security payroll taxes to build a nest egg for retirement that can be passed on to their families.”(Bush-Cheney ‘04 Website, “A Plan For Promoting An Era Of Ownership,” www.georgebush.com, Accessed 10/18/04)
President Bush Promises “No Increases In The Social Security Payroll Tax.”(Bush-Cheney ‘04 Website, “A Plan For Promoting An Era Of Ownership,” www.georgebush.com, Accessed 10/18/04)
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Please send this to the media and especially Fox News and tell them to start telling the truth instead of spinning for Kerry which according to some on here they have been doing this morning. Let's make sure they have the facts from all of us and maybe they (Fox) will wake up and quit bashing the President!
Thanks,
PKM
this ad is running non stop in columbus ohio
it is paid for by the dnc not offcially part of the kerry campaign.
It tells you what kind of a slimeball person Kerry is.
The RNC needs to hammer this home in Florida- they LIED about this in 2000...they're lying about it now. I spoke with a retired Republican here in FL this morning- she's considering changing her vote to Kerry BASED on these lies...she saw news coverage on a speech Kerry gave spreading this nonsense, and immediately panicked. By the time we finished our conversation she'd regained most of her sanity...but Kerry is creating "reasonable doubt" with his LIES.
I wish that someone would make it known that the demonrats are the ones that are responsible for what is wrong with Social Security.
You're right. Bush needs to respond to those ads, NOW.
Waiting until it becomes critical mass is not a good tactic.
Hey, RNC, posting it on the Internet isn't doing it.
It's about time that President Bush, and his people, face up to it and just flat out call Kerry a liar.
Unfortunately, the SS problem isn't explainable to 99% of the American people in 30 second sound bites. But "cutting your benefits" is, especially in Florida and other important states.
The President had better do something about this, and fast.
HE'S LYING!
I then explained SS's beginnings, the added burdens placed on the "system", the bogus trust fund full of IOU's(related it to her having her piggy bank raided and stuff with IOU's), and the intial versus current number of workers SUPPORTING one retiree's "benefits". I finished by telling her the ONLY way to fix the thing is to phase it out and let future generations to fund their own retirements.
We all know(as do my children) that when politicos smell money that can buy voters they quickly deplete whatever real(fiat?) money was there.
President Bush will be in Florida tonight and will be back later in the week to hit this issue hard in Florida.
The Kerry/Clinton RATs are absolutely despicable to be scaring senior citizens again but wouldn't you think the seniors would have a clue by now that this is scare tactics?
My Mom, who is a senior, cannot believe any senior would buy into this Kerry lie after Pres Bush has been in office for four years. But then she thinks younger people should be able to have access to some of their funds for investment.
Kerry is a total slimeball! The RATs will stop at nothing and will say anything to get elected including putting the interest of the terrorists over the interests of American citizens.
He is going to be in Florida this evening and if I understood correctly, ads will start airing against Kerry on this issue. He will also be back in Florida later in the week to counter these Kerry lies -- would look for him to be in all States these are running.
I would bet there is an ad that will soon be running countering all these lies from the RATs. I am with you -- time to call Kerry a liar!
You are so correct! This move smells of desperation on the part of Kerry! Figured they would get to it sooner or later!
( See also GailA's post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1248629/posts?page=11#11 )
Why is this even an issue now? What are the RNC and campaign staff thinking? This should have been put to bed long before now. They certainly know Kutnrun and the msm are going to use all the standard scaremongering ploys they use every election FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS.
Why has this not been neutralized? Why has this not been made clear to the public as to what candidate Kutnrun will do in the waning days of the election, and his career?
Frighten the blacks, frighten the seniors (mediscare), frighten the kids (draft)--groups all easily duped because their access to info is somewhat limited and they tend to be somewhat voluntarily segregated in community/social interaction.
Geeesh!
Ping
Fox News has made it clear that the president has never said he wants to privatize Social Security. They reported that he wants to give younger people the choice of going private and that older people who are already receiving SS will do so, and those who are not yet will do so, if they chose so.
Thanks for the link on here!
Thanks for the update on Fox. Some of their people this morning were bashing Bush and I wondered what was up with that.
Bump!
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