"Bush: Medicare, Social Sec. Must Change"

[GreenPartyVoter]

President Bush, poised to submit his new budget to Congress next week, warned Saturday that unless programs like Medicare and Social Security are changed, future generations will face tax hikes, government red ink or huge cuts in benefits.

Controlling spending requires the government to address the unsustainable growth of entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Bush said in his weekly radio address. He said spending for the programs is growing faster than inflation, faster than the U.S. economy and faster than taxpayers' ability to pay for them.

"Unless we act, we will saddle our children and grandchildren with tens of trillions of dollars of unfunded obligations," Bush said. "They will face three bad options: huge tax increases, huge budget deficits or huge and immediate cuts in benefits."

The budget Bush submits on Monday for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 will start a new debate with the Democratic majority in Congress.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070203/D8N2AC400.html

!)$^(!*&^#(&%^*$&%(*)%&@!&!!!!!!!!!! Maybe we could afford them just fine without all our unnecessary defense spending!!!

[Red Right and BLUE]

1. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

That's all I hear (or see) when he says anything.

[SharonAnn]

7. We've paid EXTRA for our Social Security. We're the only generation that's done that.

Don't try to reduce it, limit it, or eliminate it.

There will be HE*L to pay!

You stole our surplus, you and your corporate friends and your wealthy friends who got tax cuts from our surplus can just darn well pay your debt! Suck it up!

[patricia92243]

2. Raise the cap every few years. End of problem. n/t

[momster]

3. But Isn't That His Answer

to Everything?

"Unless we act, we will saddle our children and grandchildren with tens of trillions of dollars of unfunded obligations," Bush said.

He's already done that. Again, and again, and again, and....

[unblock]

4. "we will saddle our children... with tens of trillions...."

talking about your record-shattering deficits again, shrubby?

[OHdem10]

5. What about those Billions he has borrowed

from China Japan, and Mexico to pay for the Wars.

Our Children will be paying this back big time.
They are going to have to hope their parents
have SS and Medicare in order that they pay
back this War Cost.

No Privatization of SS,and or Medicare---NO NO NO!

[bunkerbuster1]

6. Take this on the road, Commander Ass-hat!

It worked so well in 2005. Remember, when you had all that political capital to spend?

Go tell it on the mountain! you'll set back the Social Security Piratization effort back another twenty years.

[thunder35]

8. why are you changing age higher?

[Straight Shooter]

9. Did that sonofabitch actually use the word "entitlement"?

Did that little snotnose petulant pissypants dictator-tot who has had everything handed to him and who continues to expect to have everything handed to him, did Little Boots actually use the word "entitlement"?

What an arse.

[bunkerbuster1]

14. That is the jargonish terminology

Not that it isn't annoying coming from a child of privilege like Bush.

[Straight Shooter]

15. It's the GOP framing the issue. That's why I get so angry when I hear that word.

The simple-simon bush says something, and the right wing echo chamber repeats it until it becomes conventional wisdom, because too many people don't bother to learn the modus operandi of the right wing. :(

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Which is why we need the Fairness Doctrine back. BUT we would have to figure out

how to make sure the media doesn't just bring in a bunch of useless token libs to speak on our behalf, as they do now.

[Robbien]

10. And this is the guy the Dems invited to their party

I do not trust the Democratic party to hold firm against Bush.

[Cleita]

11. This is just feeding at the trough for the Republican hogs

at the expense of those who worked and contributed all their lives to those programs to have them yanked out from under them at the time of life that they need them.

[Life Long Dem]

12. And the approaching half trillion dollars toward Iraq's war is for what?

A trial for Saddam? Over a judges order of a death sentence for 148 defendants who attempted to assassinate Saddam as his motorcade rode through the city?

[EndElectoral]

13. The guys got a lot of nerve with his deficits, and war games!!!