Bush Hides Social Security Privatization Plan in the Budget Proposal

[complain jane]

Sleight of Hand
Bush buried detailed Social Security privatization proposals in his budget. Can the surprise move jump-start bipartisan reform?

By Allan Sloan
Updated: 12:09 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2006
Feb. 8, 2006 - If you read enough numbers, you never know what you'll find. Take President Bush and private Social Security accounts.

Last year, even though Bush talked endlessly about the supposed joys of private accounts, he never proposed a specific plan to Congress and never put privatization costs in the budget. But this year, with no fanfare whatsoever, Bush stuck a big Social Security privatization plan in the federal budget proposal, which he sent to Congress on Monday.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11235990/site/newsweek/

[Cha]

1. Yes, I kick this so we can

kick around the idea that bush is goin' down for for being so slimey and sneaky with Americans' Social Security that they Earned but the sleazy repugs try to call "entitlement" money.

[MichiganVote]

2. I can't fucking believe this. Does Washington do ANYTHING we want?

All our years of paying into SS and this is the thanks we get. Bullshit on top of bullshit.

[Auntie Bush]

6. Who the hell does he think he is...pulling that trick on the American

people? Dictator? King?

It really makes me angry! He tried to push it on us for a year and he knows it was rejected and we DON"T want it. How can he just stick it in there without even discussing it with congress? What else has and will he stick in other future bills? Seems that every thing that he can't get passed he claims it as CiC or by Executive order or recess appointment or just sneaks it in some bill. The sick fu** just can't take "NO" for an answer. God...what a horror he must have been growing up! It's a wonder Barbara or Poppy didn't kill him! Too bad they didn't. Just think of the misery and expense the world could have saved.

[MichiganVote]

13. My feelings exactly!

[yellowdogmi]

3. wow

Now I understand the Dog and Pony show of Alito and NSA. All this time that we have been distracted with other activities. Did the press ever dig this out before passage. * had the last laugh on the DEMS and got his social security accounts through the back door. That seems like an unconstitutional power grab too. I am pissed. Have we been duped again?

[dweller]

4. this is the new budget

hasn't been porked yet by congress, and so we'll see what comes of it.

it's not been passed.
dp

[yellowdogmi]

5. Thanks

I am still pissed but now I am focused again.

[Auntie Bush]

7. We all have to write our congress people and Keith...maybe even

Matthews might cover it. We can't just ignore this!

[yellowdogmi]

8. SS isn't sexy enough for the MSM.

Forget them. Time to take to the streets, the emails, the phonecalls, notify the AARP etc....

[dweller]

9. ya never know with these criminals in charge

and i'm just getting the facts from the above article. The budget was just sent to Congress on Monday, it's Wednesday. No way it was passed that quickly, so there should be some more news about Soc.Sec privatization being stuck into it in the near future.

and there'd better be a fight over it.

dp

[Auntie Bush]

14. Calling Batman...I mean Kieth O 'man.

[lady lib]

10. Is it possible to be so low that even satan rejects you when you die?

:nuke:

[upi402]

11. Dang, I figure Beezlebub is skeered ah that feller

:evilfrown:

[tom_paine]

12. The Bush Rule: When a project is cancelled or denied budgeting

Simply re-open it under another name (or perhaps they have other tricks we don't yet know about).

My Dear God, are they getting brazen. Face it people: The Amerikan Public Treasury is THEIR MONEY. period.

Lock, stock and fucking barrel. The only thing they can't do is write checks directly from it to themselves (in the Imperial Family, that is).

Maybe Emperor George P. Bush, when he gets there, will remove the last vestiges of the Old Republic (except the Imperial Congress, of course; even Chinese Communists have a Fake Congress).