He's An Idiot

[Rose Siding]

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In an appearance at a hotel that is usually the site of political events during the New Hampshire primaries, Mr. Bush said he had no intention of giving up his insistence on revamping the Social Security system, a proposal that sank in Congress last year, and he argued that he was fixing the Medicare system, not eroding it.

"This isn't a cut," he said of his plan to cut $36 billion over five years out of the Medicare program by changing the formulas that govern its growth. "People call it a cut in Medicare. That's not a cut. It's slowing down the rate of growth. It's the difference between slowing your car down to go the speed limit, or putting your car in reverse."

The result, he argued, would be that saving from productivity or efficiency ought to be given "to the taxpayers, not to the hospitals."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/politics/09bush.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Coming Soon: The War on Hospitals

http://www.uruknet.info.nyud.net:8090/uruknet-images/bush_idiot.jpg

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Just like the famous General said

we are not retreating... we are attacking rearward.

[punpirate]

2. No, coming soon...

... the war on Social Security, renewed:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/07/AR2006020701865.html

Duffy said privatization costs were included in the midyear budget update that the Office of Management and Budget released last July 30, so it was logical for them to be in the 2007 budget proposals. But I sure didn't see this coming -- and I wonder how many people outside of the White House did.

Nevertheless, it's here. Unlike Bush's generalized privatization talk of last year, we're now talking detailed numbers. On page 321 of the budget proposal, you see the privatization costs: $24.182 billion in fiscal 2010, $57.429 billion in fiscal 2011 and another $630.533 billion for the five years after that, for a seven-year total of $712.144 billion.

In the first year of private accounts, people would be allowed to divert up to 4 percent of their wages covered by Social Security into what Bush called "voluntary private accounts." The maximum contribution to such accounts would start at $1,100 annually and rise by $100 a year through 2016.

It's not clear how big a reduction in the basic benefit Social Security recipients would have to take in return for being able to set up these accounts, or precisely how the accounts would work.

They don't give up on anything.

[NYC]

3. Bush sneaks social security plan into budget.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020806R.shtml

...Bush stuck a big Social Security privatization plan in the federal budget proposal, which he sent to Congress on Monday.

His plan would let people set up private accounts starting in 2010 and would divert more than $700 billion of Social Security tax revenues to pay for them over the first seven years...

...But anyone who thought that Bush would wait for bipartisanship to deal with Social Security was wrong. Instead, he stuck his own privatization proposals into his proposed budget...

[acmavm]

4. It's so hard to understand how one can hate someone that they don't

know as much as I hate this man. And I hate him even more because I know that (as I believe) this hate puts my immortal soul in jeopardy because of how I feel, and the fact that it grows stronger and stronger every day. But isn't it right and good to hate someone who is nothing but pure evil?

Evil walks on this earth. Don't get me wrong, I don't think that this buffoon runs anything. I just think he's the Igor to the real Dr. Frankenstein who I believe to be Richard Cheney. Someone is pulling the strings but bush** is so corrupt and has such an empty soul that he revels in being the face of this evil and soulless bunch of bastards.

[Amonester]

5. Kick & Sound The Alarm Bell

:kick: the idiot puke.