Why does Bush hate so many of us? Why do THEY need all the money?? This is OUR money that we have already put into the system. If this goes through my suggestion is for ALL of us to stop paying TAXES!
White House Moves Disability Benefits to The Chopping Block
News from the DNC:
Washington, DC – A day after the chief White House economist admitted that the Bush plan to privatize Social Security would include cuts to survivor benefits, the Bush administration also acknowledged that it would not protect disability benefits despite earlier assurances that these earned benefits would remain untouched. This is the latest trial balloon in the Bush administration’s real plan to dismantle Social Security. The announcement may help explain why a new Harris poll found that only 36 percent of Americans think President Bush’s “comments on saving and strengthening Social Security are his real motives for changing the program, while 49% believe his real agenda is to dismantle it.” [Wall Street Journal, 5/13/05]
“For the second day in a row, the Bush administration has admitted that despite past assurances, they never intended to protect Social Security disability and survivor benefits,” said DNC spokesman Josh Earnest. “From steep benefit cuts for the middle class, to risky private accounts, and now no protections for disability or survivor benefits, it’s becoming clearer every day that Bush’s real plan is to dismantle Social Security.”
THEN
Bush: Disability Benefits Won’t Be Cut. “[Bush] said he has no plans to cut benefits for the approximately 40 percent of Social Security recipients who collect monthly disability and survivor payments as he prepares his plan for partial privatization.” [Washington Post, 1/16/05]
NOW
Bush Administration Won’t Protect Disability Benefits. “Future Social Security retirement benefits for disabled workers is a matter for negotiations with Congress as it drafts solvency legislation, the Bush administration said Thursday, declining to say whether they should be raised, lowered or left unchanged. `Any plan that maintains current disability benefits will need to address the transition to retirement, and those details will be worked out through the legislative process,’ said White House spokesman Trent Duffy.” [AP, 5/13/05]
THANK YOU. This makes me sick … oops, not supposed to get sick. Well, I already am. I can’t work because of disabilities, and I will need this.
What to do, what to do.
I will be up shit’s creek if they take this away.
AND more and more auto-immune diseases are being related to man-made environmental causes- and lets not forget Gulf War Syndrome-Agent Orange- silicon implants etc., etc.,
They are continuing to make the gap between “the classes” even bigger yet. Can you spell Fascist?
misspell fascist.
but I know one when I see one.
As the figures on costofwar.comindicate, the crusades are quite costly, even at this early stage. Iran in particular is a large and populous nation, and operations there will require considerable funding.
The containment of hostile populations in client states alone is facing escalating costs.
It is a business decision.
And it also provides a terrific opportunity for Americans to show their Resolve.
Even those who may not be able to contribute in other ways can, by their glad sacrifice, play an important role in the war on terror.
I think I’ll show my ‘Resolve’ by starting with the one finger salute to bushco and carry on from there.
I also am on disability. I never believed for a moment that bushco wouldn’t put this on the chopping block. Why wouldn’t they? Dismantling SS is their real goal.
My fingers just automatically type out these letters anymore, ie…these people are ratbastards, period.
I lived on SS-DI until I was fortunate enough to meet and marry my husband. It was very important to me, emotionally, when the lady in the SS office explained, “This isn’t welfare, you know; this is money you paid into the system in case you needed it — like you do now.”
SS-DI is an earned benefit. You and I have paid for disability insurance, in advance, and, in most cases, paid in more than we will ever take out. The thieving and cruelty of Bushco appalls me and I am filled with despair.
We met a country couple today who listen to Alex Jones on their ham radio. They informed us that Bush and the Neocons are gawd-damned communists serving the Zionist’s secret One-World-Government. When we calmly nodded our heads in tacit agreement, they were amazed. “People usually tell us we’re crazy,” the woman admitted.
Now, being tired and feeling sick, I wonder if we’re not actually crazy… crazy with fear of and loathing for the crimes Bushco is committing in full daylight with the seeming approval of the passive American sheeple. I mean, we’ve left the suburbs of Atlanta and plan to move into the back woods of Virginia, grow our own food and keep our ammo handy. That’s pretty damn crazy if you accept the glossy envelop of modern life. I think we’ve simply gone into survival mode and, given the slow train wreck of the imminent collapse of the American Empire, we may be more rational than those folks driving their SUV’s and living in their McMansions. But, definitions of craziness are relative, I suppose…
Oh, and before someone jumps on me about the Zionist part above: I make distinctions between Zionist and Jew, al Qada and Arab, fundie and real Christian, etc.
“49% believe his real agenda is dismantling it”
Wow. I’m actually starting to regain my faith in Americans to see through political bullshit! Amazing!