It's morbidly ironic that Alan Greenspan, chief banker of the U.S.'s privately owned Federal Reserve, comes out so emphatically against the social security system, while the Bush regime sets about the increasing militarization and corporatization of space. It's plainly obvious where the ruling class priorities lie, and it matters not that more suffering may be created.
Not that government welfare isn't another state of dependency that we should ultimately break away from--but the means of existence are not in the hands of the free individual & empowered community and so many need some kind of assistance just to cope with imposed life.
S/RS
PS--Genovese, please repost this if you can. I am basing my comments on something I saw in a local paper.
BUSH MISLEADING ON SOCIAL SECURITY BEGINS (reposted)
Seems that 'YahooEZ' has a built-in screen against html posts.
Here again, that article without the html tags----
BUSH MISLEADING ON SOCIAL SECURITY BEGINS
Yesterday, President Bush implicitly acknowledged for the first time that his Administration could attempt to reduce Social Security benefits for workers - a reversal from one of his core campaign pledges in 2000.
Specifically, the president was asked his opinion on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's assertion that, in order to balance the budget, Social Security benefits should be cut. Bush responded, "My position on Social Security benefits is this: those benefits should not be changed for people at or near retirement." However, the president specifically refused
to say he opposed cutting future guaranteed benefits for younger and middle-aged workers.
The president's refusal to discuss younger workers was a departure from his very clear position in 2000 in which he said he did not support cuts in future Social Security benefits for anyone - young or old. Less than two months before the 2000 election, then-Governor Bush said in Florida that
people were saying, "'You know, if George W. becomes the president, he's going to take away your Social Security check.'" To which Bush added, "Don't believe it. Here's my pledge to the people of Florida: A promise made
by our government will be a promise kept when I become the president of the United States."
Certainly, President Bush has talked about his plan to privatize Social Security. However, he has obscured the fact that the plan could result in cuts to guaranteed benefits for younger workers. He has also declined to openly discuss the fact that, at a time of record deficits, his "own economic team estimates that a move to private accounts would add an
additional $4.7 trillion to the debt". And, most importantly, Bush refused to fully disassociate himself with Greenspan's call to reduce benefits.
(Taken from the Misleader.org site.
Visit this site for more about Bush Administration distortion.)
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And, yes, this system of government creates an environment
where one who has lost momentum for upward mobilization,
or one who hasn't the opportunity for upward mobilization gets enmired in the dependency of the government's 'charity'. The direction this society has taken in the past generation clearly shows the 'middle class' (the backbone of this society) being squeezed to the point where many are push downwardly immobile - forcing the creation of a new class of people: the criminal class. The Middle class will soon cease to exist. Those on the bottom end resorting to petty crime and those nearer the top resorting to'crime on paper'.
It's already happening...
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