A new NY Times poll shows that President Bush (and I use the term loosely) is largely out of touch with the American public when it comes to many issues, particularly his push to privatize Social Security.
Despite using the bully pulpit for weeks now to push his SS agenda forward, it has dramatically stalled, with most people surveyed claiming that the nation faces greater issues at the moment than a Social Security system that won’t go insolvent until well after 2050. In a surprising display of extreme common sense, a majority of those surveyed said that they supported raising the $90K cap on contributions as a quick fix to the “problem,” and four out of five people surveyed also noted that it was, in fact, “the government’s responsibility to assure a decent standard of living for the elderly.” Hmmm. Sounds remarkably like something I said recently that was attacked by many. Let’s see. Four out of five people. For you mathematicians out there, that’s 80%. Fully 80% of those surveyed believe it is government’s responsibility to assure a decent standard of living for the elderly. Signs of a nation that respects its aging. Imagine that.
Other encouraging findings? Given five different domestic issues, Social Security reform came THIRD, behind jobs and health care. Hmmm… Jobs are still #1? What happened to the millions of new jobs that the president promised us would emerge if only we went along with his huge tax cuts to the richest 5% of the country? Also, “nearly 50 percent said Democrats were more likely to make the right decisions about Social Security, compared with 31 percent who said the same thing about Republicans.” Interesting. Also quoted in the article is a Missouri Republican who claims that two other immediately pressing issues are the national debt and the environment. The pendulum swinging back…
A full fifty-eight percent of people surveyed also said Bush did not share the foreign affairs priorities of most Americans. I guess they preferred the old Governor Bush, who claimed in October of 2000 that:
“I’m not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is the way it’s got to be. We can help. And maybe it’s just our difference in government, the way we view government. I mean I want to empower people. I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don’t think it’s the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.”
http://www.sillygoth.com/pentagon.html#Main
Damn…. I think that site needs a post of its own!
Raises some interesting questions (that I’ve heard asked before, but not answered) and really lays out the case from beginning to end. Hadn’t seen those pictures of the “perfectly round holes” either. Thanks for the link!
No Problem thought it was Intresting myself ! Just another thing to wonder about.
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ONE MORE THING, PLEASE PLEASE? OKAY, AS FAR AS THIS RIDICULOUSLY BIASED STATEMENT: …”Other encouraging findings? Given five different domestic issues, Social Security reform came THIRD, behind jobs and health care. Hmmm? Jobs are still #1? What happened to the millions of new jobs that the president promised us would emerge if only we went along with his huge tax cuts to the richest 5% of the country? Also, ?nearly 50 percent said Democrats were more likely to make the right decisions about Social Security, compared with 31 percent who said the same thing about Republicans.? Interesting. Also quoted in the article is a Missouri Republican who claims that two other immediately pressing issues are the national debt and the environment. The pendulum swinging back?” THE ASSOC. PRESS, WALL STREET, AND KNIGHT RIDDER REPORTED IN SUMMER OF 2004, NEW UNEMPLOYMENT APPS DOWN 2%; NEW JOBS CREATED THIS (SUMMER2004)QUARTER: 234,566; PERCENT OF NEW BUSINESSES MAKING IT PAST THE ALL TELLING ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY=79% COMPARED TO THE CIGAR ERA PRESIDENCY? 42%…NEW UNEMPLY APPS=UP 4% SAME QUARTER 1999…NEW JOBS SAME TIME PERIOD=13000 (NUMBERS REFLECT CLOSINGS OF STEEL MILLS,MANUFACTURING COMPANIES AND THE MASS EXODUS TO OTHER COUNTRIES FOR CHEAP LABOR (BLAME IT ON THE GREEDY UNION-ALL OR NOTHING, SO YOU GET -0-)NEW BUS ONE YEAR ANNY=24% AND WE HAVE IT SOOOO BAD-IT’S NOT THAT THERE ARE NO JOBS, JUST LOOK IN ANY PAPER!!! IT’S WE HAVE SUCH LAZY PEOPLE, IT’S EASIER TO GET THE FREEBEES NOW ISN’T IT??? CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY THE LA TIMES HAS 12 PAGES OF JOBS, (ROUGHLY 400 PER PAGE) OF ALL SKILLS, ALL AGES, ALL TYPES????????????? IT’S ACROSS THE COUNTRY EPIDEMIC, CALLED LAZZZZZ ARSCCCC ITIS, AND IT’S GETTING WORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could you please stop yelling? I’d be far more inclined to view your post as legitimate if you could only find the CAPS key.