"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
--Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences."
-- C.S Lewis
My opinion for what it's worth! I believe I understand the issues but the President needs to give an address to the Nation to really dispel much of the fearmongering that is going on. I would be willing to wager that 60% of the public do not know the dire situation SS is in or what is being proposed.
Fixing SS would take away one of the left's perennial bogey men that they drag out every election to scare seniors, of which I am one. I have spent the last few years trying to educate fellow seniors in this community (mostly widows) that the Republicans would never take away their SS, as they, too, have mothers and grandmothers. Managed to reach a few. We have to reeducate people one by one--takes great work and patience, but it is the only way. The SS scare by Dems helped put WJC back in. I had oldies tell me they didn't like him, but they were afraid of losing their SS if they voted Repub. AArrrggghhh!(Primordial scream)
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