Social Security IS a problem.

[El Supremo]

The idiot keeps letting his real opinions slip out. He wants to eliminate Social Security altogether. He thinks that it is socialist. Why else wouldn't he say "Social Security has a problem?

Today's mumble fest:

Q Mr. President, you talked on your reelection about having political capital. You have a Republican Congress. How, then, do you explain not being able to push through more of your agenda, especially when it comes to Social Security reform, which the public does not seem to be accepting and your own party is split on?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, I think the public does accept the fact that Social Security is a problem. You might remember a couple of months ago around this town people were saying, it's not a problem, what's he bringing it up for? Nobody sees it as a problem except for him. And then all of a sudden, people began to look at the facts and realize that in 2017, Social Security -- the pay-as-you-go system will be in the red, and in 2042, it's going to be bankrupt. And people then took a good, hard look at the numbers and realized that Social Security is a problem.

[mcscajun]

1. Yup...another Freudian slip.

These folks have wanted to do away with Social Security since its inception.

I can still recall a HS economics teacher in 1968 blathering on about how we should be able to control our own contributions to it, have them back to invest ourselves, etc.

Nothing new about the idea, just the tactics.

[babylonsister]

2. Bob Ball, SS commissioner for 3 prez, thinks it is:

A Retiree Trying to Save His Life's Work (Social Security)

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-bobball30may30,1,...

MITCHELLVILLE, Md. — Like many other retirees, Bob Ball is concerned about what's going to happen to Social Security.

From his cluttered office in his otherwise tidy retirement community home, he has proposed his own formula for shoring up Social Security's financial future. His relatively modest tax increases and benefit cuts, combined with some government investment in the stock market, offer a contrast to President Bush's call for individual investment accounts, which Ball abhors, and steeper curbs on traditional benefits for many future retirees.

But Ball's goal isn't preservation of his monthly benefit check. Instead, he is defending the program that is his life's work.

But now the proposals of No. 43, George W. Bush, have prompted the 91-year-old Ball to try to make his voice heard in Washington once again to fight proposals that, in his view, would unravel his life's work.

Old GDub getting kicked around by a 91-year-old man...gotta love it.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-bobball30may30,1,...

[Kurovski]

3. America quite simply disagrees with him.

The more he blunders on, the more Captain Quig-ish Commander Cuckoo Bananas appears.

There is some awfully big money behind this Social Security craziness, because it has the capacity to damage the Republican party for decades to come, and yet they soldier on.

[tsuki]

4. I just think this is more evidence that Dubya is losing it mentally,

and fast. He is having a problem keeping his thoughts lucid.

[Dragonfli]

5. His Thoughts were once lucid?

[Kurovski]

8. I think that pretzel made him worse.

He's been downhill ever since.

[bvar22]

6. Wall Street hounding bush* for their payoff.

Wall Street poured MILLIONS into the bush*/cheney* campaign on the promise that they would get to handle the Billions in Social Security money that bush* would funnel into the stock market. The connected Wall Street brokers have already bought new homes, yachts,airplanes and other expensive Rich White Boy toys. They were counting on bush* being able to deliver on his promise. bush* can't afford to stop pushing his privatization scam!

Boy, are they (Wall Street Borkers) gonna be PISSED!!!
bush* may show up at work with a couple of busted thumbs (another bike accident).
:rofl:

[Massacure]

7. I agree it is a problem.

Just get rid of the cap of just paying SS taxes up until just under $100,000. Problem solved.

[LuPeRcALiO]

9. the problem is where to bury the corpse.

Gee, didn't think of that when he was swiping all that cash.