Stoopid Stuff

STOP!! READ THIS! It's Important!!

Ok, look. It's not that I believe my readership is stupid or unaware, unable to recognize the lies of the Bush administration--Especially when they are typically so egregious and obvious. But this whole "Social Security Reform" issue is one with deep historical roots and a built in faulty public perception. The faulty public perception is that Social Security is in a terrible crisis and must be "fixed". Please. Stop now and read this. Go ahead. I'll wait. Ok, back now? Good.

So now you're asking "Ok, but then what's with all this urgency that the administration is attaching to Social Security Reform if the problem is just not all that big a deal?" This is the big, scary lie part. You see, going back to the Reagan administration, a group of influential conservative Americans such as Grover Norquist, William Kristol and Richard Cheney (yep, THAT Richard Cheney) , who in later years would be indentified as the Neo-Conservatives, have been espousing a program called "Starve the Beast". They absolutely HATE the New Deal/Great Society programs, primarily Social Security and MediCare. But they know that the American people are basically kind and decent at heart and would like to see programs like those continue. Hence, "Starve the Beast". The plan is simple--they want to financially destroy Social Security and Medicare--so they can go to the American people and say "Sorry, but no more Social Security, it's out of funds". Maddeningly (to them) it was originally formulated as a pretty solid program that, with minor ongoing fixes, seems quite sustainble for the forseeable future.

So look at what they're doing. They're perpetuating this theory that the system is broken and only they have the political courage to step up to the plate and fix it--they only have our best interests at heart, you see. Then, using this "Privatization" solution their pet lapdog economists espouse, they can add over two trillion dollars of debt into the system all at once. Crash. The debt service kills the program and they say "Sorry, but at least we had the courage to try" and move on. It is the most evil, venal, disingenuous thing they have done yet.

They said they went into Iraq to make us safer. They said we would all get tax cuts. They said jobs and prosperity are just around the corner. They said they would make the environment better, the world safer and expand human rights and liberty. All lies. But this is the most craven of all. Because they are saying they are helping us when they are doing the exact oppsite. Because the rhetoric is that they are "fixing" social security when the actual plan is to destroy it. We must be aware, do the research and spread the word. No thank you, mister president. We don't believe Social Security needs a fix like this, and we won't support it.

Listen, I know. I'm just a guy with an opinion. PLEASE don't just believe me--Just don't just believe THEM either. Do your research. Read--All the facts are on the web and in Libraries. You have to read the "enemy's" documents in order to understand their motives. Here's a few places to start:

The project for a new american century
The Hoover Institution
The Heritage Foundation
The "Weekly Standard"

Honestly, their plans aren't secret, they are published for all to read. These men do not think of themselves as evil, they are the true believers in what they are doing, and they do not hesitate to communicate their "vision". Once you see that vision, I think you'll know what to do...

posted by mikey @ 11:32 AM