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[johnraptor.livejournal.com]

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[ledgehanger.livejournal.com]

Please feel free to point me to any position Bush has had as president in which he suggested "getting rid of" the safety net.

Oh yeah... he didn't.

[kmilligan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really. If anything it pisses me off that there's been such an expansion in government entitlements since Bush has taken office. He's a borrow and spend Republican.

Is that really any better, or maybe even worse, than a tax and spend liberal?

I think it's worse.

An imperfect annalogy

[johnraptor.livejournal.com]

No, not exactly, but he is planning on taking money out of an already ailing system by allowing people to divert some of their contributions into private accounts, the result of which wil be to reduce the eventual benefits received by my generation by almost half, whereas if the social security system were left alone, it would start running a deficit in about 40 years, but that would only cause the benefits to be reduced by about a quarter.

Re: An imperfect annalogy

[fleaplus.livejournal.com]

whereas if the social security system were left alone, it would start running a deficit in about 40 years, but that would only cause the benefits to be reduced by about a quarter.

And what would things be like 40 years after that?

[operationpetty.livejournal.com]

How come 'own' is misspelled?

[mid-limbo.livejournal.com]

how come thats the most important thing about this for you?

[operationpetty.livejournal.com]

who said it's the most important thing to me?

[mid-limbo.livejournal.com]

its what you chose to comment on aint it?

[operationpetty.livejournal.com]

yeah, doesn't mean I thought it was important. Maybe I'm just pedantic and I don't think the actual cartoon was worth commenting on?

[mid-limbo.livejournal.com]

...but you did comment on it. it seems petty.

[operationpetty.livejournal.com]

...i've gotta be me.. i've gotta be me.. what else can i be but what i am???

[mid-limbo.livejournal.com]

i yam what i yam

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

That's a horrible caricature of Bush

[hobbit-ninja.livejournal.com]

I know, he looks like a Keebler Elf.

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

Haha I was gonna say that ;)

[fleaplus.livejournal.com]

It's the love child of W and the deceased Tony Randall.

[hobbit-ninja.livejournal.com]

I think he's already running a circus and yeah, why is "own" misspelled?

[fleaplus.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's one analogy. Another way of looking at it would be a train chugging along on a track which is about to come to an end. Do you try to build more track, get everyone off the train, or try following a track which leads off in another direction?

[johnraptor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Interesting. My version of the train analogy would go something like this: You're chugging along on a track which will become only 75% stable in a few miles, a problem which could be solved by raising ticket prices slightly to pay for the repairs, so do you ask the passengers to contribute some more money, or do you try following another track which heads off in a different direction, even though none of the conductors can agree whether it's stable, unstable, or simply goes off a cliff?