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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Yes, but the question in my mind is why you bothered to post it or thought it mattered. it struck me as kind of similar in that way to Club's MSM post with the various out-of context snippets on the President's SS reform "plan."
That statement by Bush seemed to me to be a non-substantive rhetorical flourish, and it doesn't really matter if the U.S. government foresaw or predicted these issues in 1936. So, I think this is not an issue that you should have been drawn in to argue about. [Bad for the team, IYKWIM.]
S_A_M
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Bush quoted it as part of building the case for throwing out the fundamental deal that social security represents and replacing it with a very different one (we'll provide a vehicle for you to save for retirement and mandate some level of participation, rather than a we will provide a safety net for the aged population and share the costs among all).
Remember, Bush is not trying to fix the system we have but trying to replace it with a new and different system.
That having been said, it's not a particularly strong argument for Bush; it's kind of like when he said things about Democracy in Iraq before the invasions -- those were throw-away lines, and we all knew it was all about WMD.
