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I received a blurb from Nancy Pelosi today. It seems that the Rs are trying to destroy Social Security and Medicare again and the Democrats have sworn to protect those "initiatives." (They just stay in that mode don't they. SS is 75 years old but she still refers to it as an initiative rather than a program. Presumably focus groups show that "program" does not poll well right now.)
Of course they were Democratic initiatives when they were begun and the Ds can properly take the credit for them (or blame if you see the world that way). I wonder if the following wouldn't be a better approach right now:
My Fellow Americans we have a problem with the financing of Medicare and to a lesser extent with Social Security. We are going to have to make some combinations of reduced services and increased revenues. What you have to decide is who do you want to trust to make those changes? The Democratic party which brought these programs into existence or the Republican party which has not been so supportive all along the way.
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Unfortunately the democrats' fairy tale tells them they can just raise taxes on the wealthy and our fiscal problems will go away. It would take a gigantic shift to the center for them to make a statement like that.
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