Prs. Bush Was Right!

ParaTed2k, Of course they will! Liberals are like the child who has reached that "terrible twos" stage of his/her life. You know the stage I mean, right? This is where they get belligerent and scream and cry to get their way and will not do ANYTHING unless it is their idea!

While Bush did offer some ideas, looming Social Security issues had been mentioned several times. We have to get a handle on it and soon, but Congress has repeatedly failed to act, although they have been helping themselves to the trust fund regularly over the years in order to finance their spending sprees. Yes, the democrats denigrated Bush's ideas, yet he was right in his assessment. SSA is nothing more than a legalized ponzi scheme and that is all that it has ever been. We have got to find a viable alternative and privatization and personal retirement accounts with the gradual elimination of SSA is the only real choice there is. Congress has got to act on this, and their continued failure to do so is going to hurt a lot of people for many years to come. They should have been working on this from thew very beginning.

Yes President Bush was right about Social Security, and Medicare. Hillary, and Obama was and are still wrong. We must privatize both, or just let them destroy themselves. Soonor or later Social Security, and Medicare will be paying out more than they will be bringing in. Maybe since we as Conservatives should be against government program, we should just let Social Security, and Medicare kill itself. I doubt that the Democrats will let McCain get the credit for saving their programs for them.

They probably will. Most of the cuts that have caused the problems with Social Security and Medicare were started under the Clinton administration. They just didn't take affect until after he was out of office. Very convenient if you ask me. That way it looks like others are to blame. They didn't want to acknowledge the problems or how to fix them and now they want to point fingers. The president can only do so much. Since they didn't like what he proposed they could have come up with their own plan and set it in motion. They didn't. They decided to ignore it until it came up and bit them in the butt. Very typical of them from what I've seen lately. Hopefully though the voters will realize this and start voting in new people. Maybe if they realize they won't be keeping their cushy jobs unless they actually do something they will get off their butts and attempt to do something.

http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1451538.aspx I win. Okay okay I'll add something else. But what can I add since I added that discussion link. How about, why didn't the politicians do anything about it? It is like an "asteroid" scenario. The situation has been like this for years. Everyone decided to ignore it, and now that you can see it faintly in the sky (its pretty damn close) now its time to do something. I think there will be more scoffing, more delays and as always no progress. I wouldn't be surprised since both parties seem to play more on political interests than the interests of the country (plenty of examples too where we've had to sit and groan -_-) Add in the economic downturns, the destabilization of some crucial markets (crops, oil, energy, workforces, monetary)...then things look even more grim.

Yeah Bush may have been right that we had and currently have a problem with social security, but the queation is was his plan to fix the problem competent. Nothing Bush has done in office demonstrates his ability to actually run a country. Congress may have not acted because the plan they were presented with by President Bush was horrible. Maybe if a good plan had been presented to them they may have acted.