Bush argues his Social Security plan aids blacks/Rangel comments

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Representative Charles B. Rangel, a New York City Democrat who was among black members of Congress who met with Bush last week, said he is ''really offended" that the White House and some Republicans are trying to sell Bush's plan for private accounts on grounds that it would be more beneficial to African-Americans.

''It is one of the cruelest things that I have ever read, and I regret that it comes from the office of the president," Rangel said. If Bush wants to do something about inequities between the races, Rangel said, he should address issues including the lack of access to healthcare among many blacks, higher unemployment, and lower wages. Rangel added that unless blacks have better economic prospects, private Social Security accounts will not help them.

''I told the president, 'You can't get out what you can't put in,' " he said.

Whichever side is right, the controversy has put a spotlight on what some say has been missing in the national discussion over Social Security: Is the system filled with inequities that discriminate against certain demographic groups?


Second in a series of occasional articles examining the economic and political stakes involved in the Bush administration's proposed overhaul of Social Security.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/30/bush_argues_his_social_security_plan_aids_blacks/

[vpigrad]

1. Considering the average black man never collects a penny from SS...

it's a hard topic to get us interested in the issue. We need to keep this issue on the frontburner.

[MSgt213]

2. Whichever side is right? What is the friggin mystery for these dumb ass

reporters? They can't objectively review the facts and reach a conclusion? I guess that's too hard.

[gizmo1979]

3. Maybe Bush

could get to WHY Black Americans don't live long enough to collect benefits?Can't he see the hypocrisy in what he's saying how racist and stupid it makes him sound?

[me b zola]

5. He knows what a lying hypocrite he is

It is just more of the same propaganda that apparently has been successful on the bushbots. Pick an issue, any issue, that his cabal has pushed down the throats of the American people. Their approach makes absolutely no sense, and their reasoning is even more bazaar. But bushbots take their ridiculous reasoning & repeat it as though they were hypnotized or something.

Thank God for Charlie Rangle. So often we hear Dems respond to chimp's lunacy as if was worthy of consideration, we need more of our "leaders" to speak truth to power.

[CindyDale]

4. Here's an AP article that appeared in the St. Pete Times today

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SOCIAL_SECURITY_BLACKS?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

It explains how all groups benefit from the way SS is structured.