THey don't want Bus to get credit for "saving Social Security", DougR??

Seems to me the whole problem is headstrong irresponsible spending, mixing of funds, and deficit spending.

And even so the bankruptcy in factual numbers is much less than it is in kinee-jerk soundbites being pushed by the perpetrators.

George W. Bush has been a fiscal catastrophe all his life. He is a "spend and spend" Republican, spending what he doesn't have, forcing the nation into the position of spending what it doesn't have. Seems to me if he was an examplar of Hubby's notion of personal responsibility he would have made at least ONE thing that he touched profitable.
An oil company, maybe, or a sports team, or a real estate company, or an AA chapter. Even a drug pushing operation. But no.

THis is totally aside from the issue of understanding the difference between a safety net and saving for retirement. The whole concept of SS was never to fund retirement fully but to provide a safety net, a baseline of minimal support to save the national embarassment of putting our elders on the street if they had no other support. This whole argument is being distorted by this little misunderstanding. Investing those funds wisely is what the administration was supposed to b be doing. I would love to see what they were actuaslly doing with those dollars. Who, how much and when.

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