2005-02-06
HEALTH CARE | EQUAL JUSTICE | SOCIAL EQUITY
Social Security funds at not in crisis | America's moral leadership is | BIG difference | That Dubya, Inc. continues to promote the Neo-Con's version of the social safety net, even without the citizenry's endorsement is, however, no surprise | Arrogance has a way of feeding on itself and making the perpetrators more impressed with themselves | But I digress |
The facts in the case warrant further review | And fortunately, others have already begun to provide facts that counter the myth being touted by the media toadies at FOX and MSNBC | The government Watchdog group Fact Check makes note that
What I find even more troubling with the NeoCon con-job on Social Security is that the powers that be are trying to do this as a tag team effort while the larger health care safety net for the average Joe and Jane continues to shred in tatters | As Dubya does his Texas Two-step across the country trying to enlist support to hand over the public's nest egg to his gambler pals on Wall Street [who graciously publish Dubya's disinformation babble for free] the fact is that half of the USA's personal bankruptcies are caused by medical bills that the ordinary citizen cannot afford to pay | Why is this? Simply because current health care insurance options provided do not cover essential needs with unforseen medical expenses | Adding to this, even Business Week [no flaming leftist faction they] has reported that the Big Business health care packages recently being touted to uninsured minimum wagers do little or nothing to help solve existing medical care needs | For Dubya, it maye be no problem when he chokes on a pretzel ~ not only is he a millionaire, but he's got us paying his medical bills out of our tax dollars | So I remain unconvinced that he has a clue how the rest of us are affected by his philosophical largesse |
What's the point? It's simple actually | If we're already at an economic pandemic with inadequately covered health care costs, how in good graces can we expect we'll have even a pittance to live on if our social security reserve goes to finance the next generation of ENRON, TYCO, HealthSouth or Adelphia corporate looters? | Just wondering |
Social Security funds at not in crisis | America's moral leadership is | BIG difference | That Dubya, Inc. continues to promote the Neo-Con's version of the social safety net, even without the citizenry's endorsement is, however, no surprise | Arrogance has a way of feeding on itself and making the perpetrators more impressed with themselves | But I digress |
The facts in the case warrant further review | And fortunately, others have already begun to provide facts that counter the myth being touted by the media toadies at FOX and MSNBC | The government Watchdog group Fact Check makes note that
...two official projections -- one by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and a somewhat less pessimistic projection by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have found that the President's assertions lack credibility, and may even mislead the public to achieve a real gutting of Social Security resources.Increasingly, the public isn't buying the sales pitch | At Dubya's recent visit to Montana, he was greeted with a tepid response to his pitch man's proposals | And Montanta's Senator Backus found skepticism among the populace toward that pitch | Elsewhere, in the New York Times, Nicholas Confessore speculated that Dubya's agressive effort may prove to be its undoing if not also undoing of George II himself | Personally, I remain less optimistic than that |
The CBO doesn't project trust-fund depletion until a decade later, in 2052, and figures that the benefits cuts wouldn't be so severe, a reduction to 78% of promised benefits. But either way, even a "bankrupt" system would continue to provide most of what's promised currently.
A more detailed analysis is provided
What I find even more troubling with the NeoCon con-job on Social Security is that the powers that be are trying to do this as a tag team effort while the larger health care safety net for the average Joe and Jane continues to shred in tatters | As Dubya does his Texas Two-step across the country trying to enlist support to hand over the public's nest egg to his gambler pals on Wall Street [who graciously publish Dubya's disinformation babble for free] the fact is that half of the USA's personal bankruptcies are caused by medical bills that the ordinary citizen cannot afford to pay | Why is this? Simply because current health care insurance options provided do not cover essential needs with unforseen medical expenses | Adding to this, even Business Week [no flaming leftist faction they] has reported that the Big Business health care packages recently being touted to uninsured minimum wagers do little or nothing to help solve existing medical care needs | For Dubya, it maye be no problem when he chokes on a pretzel ~ not only is he a millionaire, but he's got us paying his medical bills out of our tax dollars | So I remain unconvinced that he has a clue how the rest of us are affected by his philosophical largesse |
What's the point? It's simple actually | If we're already at an economic pandemic with inadequately covered health care costs, how in good graces can we expect we'll have even a pittance to live on if our social security reserve goes to finance the next generation of ENRON, TYCO, HealthSouth or Adelphia corporate looters? | Just wondering |
SITES KEEPING TRACK OF SOCIAL SECURITY ISSUES: No Crisis | Matthew Yglesias | US Action for Social Justice |
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