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March 8, 2005
Legend's View:
Dear Mr. President
In your blueprint to privatize Social Security, the
plan avoids rollbacks from large tax-cuts that benefit the rich, yet punishes
blue-collar workers and veterans by cutting job training and raising co-payments
for VA prescriptions.
Programs helping jobless workers through the Workforce Investment Act
are being eliminated. And restricting pension benefits for a worker whose
company declares bankruptcy blames the worker, and only weakens traditionally
guaranteed, job-based pension plans.
Cuts in Trade Adjustment Assistance for workers whose jobs are shipped
overseas is a great way to insure American jobs...for non-American workers.
Since the beginning of your first term, prescription co-payments for the
VA have ballooned more than 200 percent, and the current budget plan will
double the co-payment yet again.
What are you doing? The soldiers that fought in your father’s war
now suffer from your narrow view of who to tax. The most fortunate citizens
seem to be able to keep a “whole pie” while the hard workers,
the military, and the poor, may not even get a slice.
You also diminish checks and balances, which is the foundation of this
country’s protection against itself.
You would enact changes that require Congress to hold budgetary legislation
only in odd-numbered years, where it could not interfere with presidential
campaigning. Ultimately, the president would have more control of budget
decisions, taking away Congress’ power to right whatever wrongs
may have occurred.
This shows where your priorities are--that you don’t think about
America, but only yourself. Of course, Americans would hate for you to
actually worry about this country.
America would be blind not to be skeptical about your vision of the country
for the next 30 years.
If increasing the number of homeless is your goal, go for it!
If civil war is on your agenda, keep proposing ridiculous bills!
President Reagan approved the training of foreign soldiers, and that resulted
in 9/11.
Do you like the idea of trained killers blaming their commander-in-chief
for their horrible life after leaving the military?
What will our veterans do, feeling their country is ungrateful for their
services?
Do you care if American soldiers realize they have been “pimped”
for oil, or does it not matter as long as they don’t realize it
during your term?
Is the “support the troops” fad just a way to counteract your
neglect of them? Why not take care of their problems, giving them the
funding that they need?
These are just a couple of conclusions drawn from examples in your blueprint
to privatize social security.
Ask yourself, before you lay out more plans, “In 20 years, just
what will America blame President George W. Bush for?”
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