Disgraceful, isn’t it? Lying in the face of this worried young mother, Bush told her that, in 2041, “there’s nothing left” in Social Security. And then, of course! He knew what to do! He dragged out that favorite old groaner:
BUSH (5/4/05): You know, a lot—I talk to a lot of young folks, like Jose and Jessica. There was an interesting survey once that somebody pointed out to me, that said younger people think it's more likely they're going to see a UFO than get a Social Security check.
Well, if you feel that way, and you watch that money come out of your check every month, it's a little discouraging, isn't it? To be paying into something that you're not sure is going to be around.
Clearly, there’s nothing this grimy man won’t say—and no one he won’t say it to. Indeed, if one reads through the transcripts from this week’s twin events, one is struck, again and again, by the fears expressed by the average citizens who are being treated like fools by their president. The fears of Jessica Gomez for her three children. The fears of Roberts for her two kids. And yes, the fears of 84-year-old Deanie Smith: “What I'm concerned about is my son and my daughter and their two sons. Will there be anything left?”
Of course there will be something left; Bush knows it as well as he knows his own name. But he knows that Deanie Smith doesn’t know, and there’s nothing this grimy man won’t say, even to mothers and grandmothers. Here he is in Mississippi with Cynthia Roberts, playing on a mother’s primal fear:
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