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Is there any reason to believe that the increasingly demagogic* president who sold us the Iraq War with horrible fantasies of "weapons of mass destruction" is being any more honest about Social Security? Just as the misguided Iraq war was based on pre-determined ideological goals rather than necessity (& became a deadly disaster as a result), so is the outrageous plan to privatize Social Security. S.S. is not going broke. It works. Social Security needs a small but long term adjustment in how it is funded. Medicare is what is broke & going broker, & Bush's badly designed drug program only made it worse. The neo-com right wants to "nation build" abroad even as it dismantles or guts some of the most necessary & successful federal programs at home, using "faith" & "family value" gobblespeak to disguise their true agenda. Put this administration on level "RED" alert; it is waging psychological terror attacks on the American people. Let's put Social Security on a strong foundation - it need not be difficult or economically painful - & get the hell out of Iraq. Stall Bush on his Grand Designs for two years & he'll be lame duck'd into ineffectiveness. Get with the Middle East peace process, Dubya, & history might yet honor you.
*demogogue: one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts.
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