Indulge me.

[kellinator]

For those of you who are planning to vote for Bush in November, would you please tell me why? Preferably a reason a little more nuanced than "Kerry's an asshole"?

Note: You're not going to change my mind on this. If the past four years haven't changed my mind, a fifty-word comment sure as hell isn't going to do it.

I'm just trying to understand. Right now nothing scares me more than the thought of four more years of Bush, but I know there are people I like and respect who disagree for whatever reason, and I want to know why, so I can at least try to understand.

No flaming. If I'm too slammed to post my DragonCon pictures (coming soon!), I'm sure as hell too busy to play referee. Play nice, folks.

Comments

[winterbadger]

The only weasel option I see in there is to either delay the changes until after he is president, or to reduce benefits for "people who don't rely on Social Security" and are "high-income beneficiaries" (i.e. the very wealthy).

Well, there's also the option of finding other funds in general revenue that can support SSI. After all, SSI has been funding the rest of the budget for decades; it's time for ag subsidies to multinational ag companies to give a bit back, maybe. Fiscal discipline is one of the ways Kerry suggests that SSI can be continued at more than the 73% that the system can afford to pay starting in 2042 when the crunch hits.

And I don't really see anything wrong with means-testing either SSI or Medicare. Those programs are there to make sure that the poorest in our society don't lack basic healthcare or other needs and can be independent in their old age. I really don't see why Donald Trump should be getting checks from the SSA when he retires if he's still got millions (or billions) in the bank.