Bush talks Social Security at Notre Dame, my alma mater

[Larkspur]

I'm a 1983 grad of ND

Making his case or spreading lies at my alma mater
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/03/05/local.20050305-sbt-MWKA-A1-Making_his.sto

SOUTH BEND -- President Bush, brimming with folksy charm, used it to try to persuade his audience that Social Security needs fixin' if future generations are to benefit from it.

Surrounded by charts which showed the Social Security Trust Fund moving into the red by 2018, the president painted a bleak picture of what lies ahead, even if reforms are made.

"The government can't possibly pay the promises we have made as you've seen from the charts," Bush said Friday during an appearance at the Joyce Center. "It's impossible to do so."

The president also used his visit to South Bend to hammer home the message that retirees and those about to retire won’t suffer if he is successful in his proposal to allow younger Americans to divert some of their payroll taxes into personal accounts that they can use to better feather their own retirement beds.

It is a message that Republicans have been at pains to get out in an effort to counter what they feel are efforts by opponents to scare senior citizens into believing they will suffer if the president’s plan is adopted.

Although the 5,000 tickets handed out for the president’s visit to the Joyce Center were given to various schools and groups on a non-partisan basis, the crowd cheered the president when he arrived and was generally enthusiastic.

Note: the Joyce Center seats over 11,000 for basketball games and Bush only go 5,000 area residents to show up.

[penpal7]

1. the flip side of those charts showed those mobile weapons labs

that we never found

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Good one !

:thumbsup:

[cornermouse]

2. Say again?

They're saying tickets were given out on a non-partisan basis? For some odd reason, I don't believe them.

[burn the bush]

3. I was there. Outside that is. With the other non pugs.

and those people coming out were not bipartisan.

[RPM]

5. and i am sure those good x-tians ate out of his hand

god - nothing makes me more sick than bush - ND may be second to him.