Bush calls it "Social Security Reform". It is, in fact, Social Security DEFORM. He is doing this because the rich don't NEED it. His coalition of the rich and the ignorant will be difficult to overcome. If this passes, let's begin the secession process in the Blue states.
Once this new budget plan is exposed this afternoon, we will have no choice but to increase minimum wage to keep 3/4 of our country from falling into the poverty bracket.
Especially after hearing Bush's proposed budget it's more necessary then ever to raise minimum wage and also to stop the lies that Bush is trying to spread to the American Citizens.
This is a travesty of justice. Social security is not a hand out. I have paid into this system for 40 years, and do not want to see it changed under any circumstances. Replace the money that has been stolen. First the Bush family gave us the savings and loan heist costing billions if not trillions, now they want to do the same with social security. Stop them at any cost.
TOTALLY FLAWED IDEA to ATTEMPT start having private accounts for retirement, that is no form of real security, or any social security... you cant change horses mid stream,..... a middle aged 51 year old like myself... stuck.. will many of my peers be homeless elderly,(sob) except the very rich , which is SEEMS you care about mr george w. WAKE UP.. our society is interwoven and interdependent, and that is a good beginning, but it needs to be expanded for health care basics and emergencies for ALL US citizens.. we are a third world country in that sense.....
the money for retirees would come from the same place, and void the tax cuts on rich...over 20 to 30 years, there could be gradual replacement of the funds taken from soc security for the nasty deficit... there will be more contributions, raise the min, and may have to increase the ben a llttle less per year, if severely needed.... MR George W., i dont think you have on your thinking cap, OR you are just a self centered pioussnob sho does not care about us, the people.. THINK ABOUT IT ... and try to adopt a more realistic and democratic view of us, ya know, WE THE PEOPLE... many fine intelligent non snobs have been alienated by your poorly thought out schemes re: our .. OUR,.... the peoples securiy fund... ..... STOP NOW.. this is very serious, you are going backwards.... the people will boycott you, and how can you sleep at nite, knowing the pain and hardship you are causing..
Some Suggested Slogans for the Campaign to
Save Social Security from the GOP:
SOCIAL SECURITY IS FAMILY SECURITY
BUSH MIGHT NEED A FIX -- BUT SOCIAL SECURITY DOESN'T!
SOCIAL SEQURITY: ANOTHER IRAQ?
MR. PRESIDENT, YOU'RE NO FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (SO STOP PRETENDING TO BE)
[Is Lloyd Bentsen available to do the voice-over?]
BUSH: IT'S SOCIAL SECURITY, NOT SOCial IT TO SECURITY
Gregory Wright,
Sherman Oaks, Calif.
greg@newciv.org
America should be actively moving toward removing the plank from it's own eye before addressing the splinter in another's eye.
Dear Lord! Let them wake up!
Social Security should not be changed.
The minimum wage does not allow for Affordable Living in this country and should be increased to reasonable wages to sustain the people.
It is time to help the American People, all the American People, not just the wealthy. I'm turning off the money spent to those corporations that bribe and steal from the American People!
It is os hard surviving in this modern age. Even on a higher than minimum wage salary do I find it very difficult to financially support the neccesities of life. Please ocnsider the poorer citizens of the Nation which make up a huge percentage. PLease understand that we can not afford toe at half the time. We cannot afford to keep ourselves healthy. We cannot survive. Isn't the job of our government to look out and take care of the people? Well everybody except for the very wealthy are suffering. Open your eyes and relaize that just because you have money in your pockets doesn't mean the rest of us are as fortunate.
Stop now! Your Illegitimate Regime has done enough damage!!! It will take several generations to repair the damage done by the Neo-Cons.
Bring Democracy back to the United States! Let's have a legitimate election and actually COUNT the VOTES!!
Time to save Social Security---acctually good that W Bush is staking his second term on an issue he will loose.
Lets do more to raise wages please look at issues on our website---inclding possible Technology Parks
www.organizingdemocratsan dlabor.4t.com
Check out effort to break up Wal-Mart Sherman Anti-Trust Law! Petition!
Keep social security the way it is. Instead of spending billions upon trillions of dollars on a needless atrocity such as your War in Iraq and start protecting our homeland intiatives.
When will you, sworn to represent we who pay your salary, finally start working for US instead of Corporate America and Wall Street???? If you sign onto this plan to further impoverish mainstream America, you deserve to lose your jobs! FDR cared about the citizens of this country...George Bush cares nothing for the average citizen - only himself and his corporate donors. Do the right thing. There is NO right way to do the WRONG thing for America and democracy.
How can you give yourselves raise after raise and not do anything for the people who pay your paycheck? When was the last time you people in congress had to pay for anything out of your OWN POCKETS, or worry about medical bills, mortgage, etc.? Why don't you stop whoring to corporations and do your jobs? Which is work for the AMERICAN FLESH and BLOOD REAL PEOPLE?!?
Social Security needs improvements, not privatization. We the people will not be duped into another corporate venture by "Dubya". As he once said, "There's an old saying down in Texas, or maybe it's in Tennessee that goes 'fool me once and ... shame ... shame on you? Fool me twice and ...(long awkward silence likely induced by the prescription Bush is taking WITH benefits) ... shame on ... well, fool me once and you can't get fooled again!'". The people of this country are being screwed economically and it's going to stop. Otherwise, those doing the screwing are going to lose their pe*@#%s. Get it? AND ATTENTION BIG MEDIA: you're next.
Do not fix something that is not broken. The medicine is much too harsh in regard to privatizing social security.
Prescription Drug Plans on Part B of Medicaid must be re-tooled to included 805 reimbursement with no increased premimium. Medicaid in general needs to be looked at, including part A....particularly benefits made available for mentally ill adults.
I think we need to boycott the MEDIA ... !!! .. We would not be in this mess if the people of America were told the truth .. ALL OF IT ...But the Media only puts out what the White House wants them too ...
Let us do a cohesive movement to purge the neo-republicans (any Democrat that votes with any Republicans on anything) and take back the Democratic Party. The two-faced Democrats such as Bidden and many more neo-republicans have to go! The republicans are distroying our nation - the Nazi mental midgets!Remember Hitler - he did the same thing our coward president is now doing, and the right wing knownothings think it is alright???!!!
The European democracies are demonstrating to us the a social net for our people is the only way forward. A livable minimum wage is the first step. There should be no cap for FICA wages; that in itself would solve the social security shortfall. We are the only advanced democracy without guarenteed heathcare for all our citizens
I think that George W. Bush needs to think NOT about what he wants, but about what the people want! This is supposed to be democracy, but I since Bush this has been a dictatorship. Enough!
While you're boycotting abusive pharmacies, don't forget to boycott those that allow their pharmacists to refuse to fill legally prescribed medications because the pharmacist has "ideological" hangups about certain medications. It is not acceptable to allow extremist ideologies to override a doctor's expert medical diagnosis and the patients choice to take the prescribed medication. Since when is an uninformed pharmacist allowed to have more power over medical decisions than a medical professional's diagnosis based on the private details of a patient's history, which are unknown to the pharmacist?
As citizens of this great decieving country, we need to become more aware of the underlying reasons behind ever move made by this administration.We need to stand up and say we are not ignorant and will not have this!
Ever since Bush has come into power he has become a dictator. People aren't free anymore, & I think it is time we stand up for what we believe in!! This is supposed to be a democracy!! Enough!
Privatization is nothing but a gift to Wall Street and you need to know that we are on to you. Privatization has nothing to do with any danger of Social Security going broke, but may hurry the real problem by the need to borrow a trillion or more to cover it.
It's time we rise up collectively as the true America, one completely silenced in recent years, and refuse any interaction with corporations that would enslave us.
Everything stated in the petition is true. Bush applies fear to get his way and give our monies to the rich. Take the ceiling off of Social Security - it will be solvent for many, many years to come. Educated people know that he is lying and trying to scare people into believing his way. Pray God that he does not accomplish what he wants to do to Social Security. He has already started Medicare on the path to ruin - we must fix that also.
In civilized nations, people come together to form a government that will provide for the safety and welfare of the citizenry. If the Bush government doesn't want to help all of the people equally, the people who give power to the government and who are the nation, then it is not a just and real government at all and should therefore be disbanded or overthrown, as it says in the Declaration of Indepence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
