Kerry Falsely Claims Bush Plans To Cut Social Security Benefits

Factcheck.orq ^ | 10/18/2004 | FactCheck Staff

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Kerry Falsely Claims Bush Plans To Cut Social Security Benefits

It's not Bush's plan, and it wouldn't cut benefits.

Summary

A Kerry ad claims "Bush has a plan to cut Social Security benefits by 30 to 45 percent." That's false. Bush has proposed no such plan, and the proposal Kerry refers to would only slow down the growth of benefits, and only for future retirees. It was one of three possible "reform models" detailed by a bipartisan commission in 2001.

The ad also says nothing about what Kerry would do to address the troubled state of Social Security finances. Unless taxes are increased, the system's trustees say currently scheduled benefits would have to be cut 32%

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[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

More Kerry's lies debunked!

[bannie]

High school kids still believe the garbage about Bush implementing the draft.

Pathetic.

This campaign is definitively a scam by the media.

[HawaiianGecko]

	News and Analysis   NEW! GOP STEALS DEMOCRATS’ PLAYBOOK By Robert G. Beckel Tribune Media Services It was like clockwork. Two weeks before Election Day my now departed mother would call me in a panic about Social Security and Medicare. “The TV says the Republicans are going to cut my benefits!” And I’d always say, “Don’t worry, Mom, you and your friends keep voting for Democrats. They won’t let Republicans cut either one.” I always felt a twinge of guilt after those calls. What the poor old lady saw was some Democratic ad hitting Republicans for trying to cut Social Security and Medicare. And like you granddaddy’s pocket watch, those ads always worked. Full Story... On Dayside with Linda Vester (FOX) ol' Bob gave the same story with a slightly different (and honest) twist.  He said “Don’t worry, Mom, you're social security benefits will be back on Wednesday!"

[Just Lori]

A Kerry ad claims "Bush has a plan to cut Social Security benefits by 30 to 45 percent." That's false.

It doesn't matter that it's false. For crying out loud, more than half of what they say is false! Even though the records (public for all to see) show that what the dems say is false, the sheeple still don't believe it! It's a vast right-wing conspiracy! They only believe what they want to believe, and it's a very sad state indeed. I was among them for almost 20 years. "Democrat - good. Republican - bad." That really was my thinking, but at least I could see what was going on and grasp (somewhat) the implications after a while. (Slow learner) When Carter gave the Panama Canal away, I KNEW this was NOT good for America. After months and months of Americans being held hostage in IRAN (no change there)I was actually ANGRY that Regan got them out. He was a Republican for crying out loud! I slowly began paying attention. (I am praying there are democrats out there like I was.... paying attention.) Finally, in 1992, when I saw the Democrat candidate reaching for the highest office in the land, something really stirred in me big time. My gut told me something was very wrong with this party I claimed as part of who I was, what I believed in. No, Democrats, the problem is not as much with you as it is with what your party has become!

[jocko12]

kerry so full of it ,his eyes turned brown and his breath stinks.