Posted on 08/13/2002 7:19:30 PM PDT by Libloather
Illegitimate Senate Majority Leader Tom "Puff" Daschle visited Portland on Tuesday, and said he'd "fight" to stop Social Security privatization. That means he'll fight for the status quo, to make sure the program goes bankrupt and no one under 50 or so never sees a dime from it.
Privatization is proposed for the young, and wouldn't effect our current seasoned citizens. Plus, it's optional. But facts don't matter to Daschle. He thinks he can pervert the word "privatize" into a tool to terrify little old ladies into dragging themselves to the polls. It's disgusting - but it's the kind of thing you have to do when you have no reasons to give voters to vote for you.
If we don't do anything about Social Security, the Baby Boomers are going to be up the creek without a paddle. We conservatives want to solve the problem, but the Democrats want to keep it as a sweet issue they can use to scare grandma into the voting booth. We don't know just how much money Tom Daschle and his wife make because they refuse to release their tax returns, but we do know they make millions. Yet he and Dick Gephardt are out there saying that their own mothers will starve and are living on Social Security alone! This is sick, and it takes me back to the school lunch program.
The Democrats dragged out all these parents to say that if the school lunch program was "cut" (there was never any plan to cut it, of course; it was just a reduction in the rate of growth - a 4% increase in funding), their kids would starve. What, you parents are not going to feed them? It's the same thing with Daschle! His Senate majority leader salary alone is $161,200 a year! If you were a good son, you'd support your mother if she needed a helping hand. Why is Mama Daschle living only on Social Security, Tom? What kind of quality of life does she have on that check? Does Tom Daschle love his mother? Why let her suffer just so he can say he relates to these other senior citizens out there who are also suffering?
I am literally sick and tired of these liberals dragging their mothers into political arguments - first Gephardt and now Daschle. Daschle's a tightwad! He's picking the pockets of all other Americans to pay for his mother's lifestyle, just so he can sit at home and roll around in the millions he and his wife make! How can you possibly support these people? How can they look at themselves in the mirror? Do you Democrats ever say to yourself, "I actually vote for people who are letting their mothers choose between dog food and drugs, and they're proud of it"?
Democrats don't want us controlling any of our retirement money because it takes them out of the loop. But guess what? Members of Congress elected before 1984 participate in what's called the Civil Service Retirement Program, which is separate from Social Security and which is funded through member contributions and our tax dollars! Members pay only 6.2% into Social Security, while you're paying 15% in – which includes what your employer pays. So it's another case of one set of rules for the elite. They're smart, see, and they know how to invest. You're a bunch of idiot children who need your nanny state government superiors to take care of you.
When are you seasoned citizens going to wake up? The Republicans aren't the ones taking away your Social Security money. They never would propose any such thing - but Democrats did in 1993! Bill Clinton's income tax plan, which not one Republican voted for, increased taxes on Social Security recipients by subjecting more of your Social Security income to taxation. Algore cast the deciding vote! So to modify the Democrat mantra: Why would you balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, Democrats? I'm tired of being the only voice pointing this stuff out. I really, really am. This stuff is not hard. There's an RNC out there, but you'd never know it.
Daschle: Democrats support senior benefits
The Associated Press
August 13, 2002
PORTLAND — Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was in Portland Monday to boost the Senate candidacy of Democrat Bill Bradbury and vowed his party would fight to prevent the privatization of Social Security.
He told a small group of seniors at one of the “coffee table conversations” that he has been holding around the state that privatization, favored by many Republicans including President Bush, is courting disaster.
Bradbury said about a third of retired Americans depend wholly on Social Security benefits.
“There is a difference here,” Daschle said of the Democratic and Republican plans. “We need to appreciate and distinguish between them and to fight for it.”
Daschle said Oregon is a key state in what will be a tight contest to see which party controls the next Senate.
Bradbury is challenging Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, who is ahead in the polls.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., was also in Portland on Monday to stump for Bradbury.
She said corporate finance reform was one issue Bradbury would use to distinguish himself from Smith, saying the senator was in “lockstep” with a Bush administration that was slow to act on the recent business scandals.
They are probably jealous that Barbara Bush isn't their mother. The Bush boys take care of their mother.
Anyway, no one can live on SS. My 72 year old Mother lives with us, and we are a happy family.
God bless you and your Mom! I am sure you do have a happy family!
FReepers are such great people!
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Daschle is a mother!
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Glad you are covered financially. :-)
Did your mother EVER think she could make it on Sosha Security - alone?
I will ask her that tomorrow. She also has a small pension from her last job. She was a widow at an early age, with four small children. She spent so much of her time and energy working, at times two jobs..and caring for four children, that I do not know if she considered it, until she was much older.
I truly commend her for her work. My grandmother passed away in 1988. She had the smarts to save nickels and dimes to make sure her husband and daughters made out OK.
She did that from 1940 thru 1988. Ya know, during the worst economy in the last 50 years...
They could stop the suffering of everyone elses mother, who has no rich son, to help with the cost of prescriptions etc. I bet they would cry to no end if the Senate suddenly had to be included in Social Security instead of the plan they are currently under. It might weed out some of the lifetime politicians looking for that free ride.
They have assumed the fetal position, as usual. This was stressed this morning by Ed Crane, head of the Cato Institute, in talking about Social Security private accounts on C-SPAN. I have read the report of the President's commission on private accounts (it is available on the White House web site). The commission, in their recommendations, limited the investments to the same type of investments as are in the government's Thrift Savings Plan, their 401-k, to which members of Congress can contribute.
My question, to Dasshole, Gebhardt, et al, who call private accounts risky, would be: "Have you stopped contributing to your Thrift Savings Plan account?"
Why, oh why can't the Republicans hit back at the DemocRATs with 15 or 20 second sound bites? Why, oh why are they always on the defensive?
I get at least a letter a day from one Republican group or another, asking for funds. I send every damned one back with a message that I will never contribute until they go on the offensive.
2 posted on 8/13/02 7:30 PM Pacific by Selara
Good for you, but Please understand, SSI WAS AND IS NOT A RETIREMENT PROGRAM. It was set up as a retirement SUBSITY!
As in an aid to your retirement savings...The Dascholes of the world continue to warp the Argument that it is what the elderly are supposed to live on. They thenselves had a responsibility to plan.
Sorry but that is my pet peive. The mind set that SSI was and is a retirement program. IT IS NOT!
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