-Chuck Schumer, out burning one
and shooting a few rounds
Posted on 03/05/2005 4:39:40 AM PST by Libloather
CLINTON: 'FIX IT, DON'T NIX IT' 2 hours, 53 minutes ago
President Bush hit the road for his Social Security overhaul in New Jersey yesterday — while in New York, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton painted Bush as a threat to the retirement program.
"I'm going to keep telling people we've got a problem until it sinks in, because we've got one," Bush said in Westfield. "The safety net has got a hole in it."
At Pace University, Clinton ran a "fix it, don't nix it" rally where Schumer told of a time before Social Security when seniors ate cat food.
I'm sure Chuckie Cheese, born in 1950, was an eyewitness to seniors eating cat food prior to 1935.
I wonder if there was even such a thing as cat food before 1935.
Sounds like Hellery has Jesse writing for her now...
Clinton had a chance to fix it, and he nixed it. Rejected the recommendations of his own Blue Ribbon Social Security Commission, which was chaired by liberal icon Edward Gramlich, and recommended private accounts.
Web search turns up 1958 date for inventiuon of cat food.
Yes
It was called meeces. ;)
Clinton is just a little off, that's all. She should have said dog food. Those of you who remember Jackie Cooper in the Our Gang flicks may remember a few references to such a tasty diet among the not so well off.
My parents and grandparents never told me that anyone ate cat food before socialist security-they told me that that people saved their money, worked instead of "retiring" and buying a motor home and families took responsibility and care of disabled or ill relatives instead of tossing them into a "nursing home" and expecting the government to care for them.
And I seem to remember I was also told that pet food is a rather recent invention-Shumer is drinking too much koolaid again.
That's terrible!
Aren't they supposed to eat DOG food?
(Ba da bing....)
Dan
Did they tell you some rural people during the depression era lived in caves and ate possum, because they had no jobs to earn that money your parents and grandparents so frugally saved?
Considering how expensive pet food is these days, they would probably get off cheaper eating frozen dinners and ground beef...
My grandparents were small-time ranchers who were only marginally middle class and did not have electricity until I was 5. During the depression Texas was still mostly rural-I wish it would have stayed that way. And in the rural areas here deer, squirrel and possum have always been eaten-some of the people who live in this rural community still consider squirrel and possum something good to eat (no, I'm not one of them). No one in my family is wealthy, nor have they ever been.
The Democrats are so far out of the main stream of America i don't see how the people can keep voting for them.
"fix it, don't nix it"
I thought that's what they were doing Clinton. I don't hear anyone saying, "do away with Social Security", I hear they say, "let's fix it".
I, too, wish it were still so. There was a time, not so long ago, when we still had cattle grazing in open fields. Now, there are houses for as far as you can drive in an hour.
. . . some of the people who live in this rural community still consider squirrel and possum something good to eat (no, I'm not one of them).
I don't mind squirrel. Shot em, skinned em, ate em. But, possum? That is a nasty creature best left out of my cook pot.
The year 1935, same as SS enactment, comes up for Ralston Purina and Evanger's Dog & Cat Food Company, Inc.
Schumer was once again selling the big lie.
Never had possum but have eaten deer, squirrel,rabbit,raccoon and woodchucks.
All are pretty good if done right.
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