Bush did try to fix SS and was told loudly it doesn't need fixing.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bush was told by Greenspan and Paul O'Neil early in his term that this > would happen if Social Security wasn't fixed. He elected instead to > give massive tax rebates to increase his popularly, then after 9/11 to > start wars we couldn't afford. End the wars, reduce the tax cuts and > repay the Social Security fund, and this problem goes away. I > suspect, however, that you would not agree with those solutions. You > want to stop paying Social Security to the elderly, in spite of the > fact they they paid into it and are promised the benefits. > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> and bits of the CBO report as well. the assumptions in the document are >> skewed to make things look as good as possible, the truth is much worse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm