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Social Security is not in crisis; it is in good health for decades to come. And it is our friend, as it has been for millions and millions of hard-working Americans over the last 7 decades. It would be even stronger if this Administration had not used the last four years to turn the Clinton surplus into such massive, unimaginable debt. Now they want to implement this Social Security wrecking project at the cost of even more trillions of unfundable government expense.

What if the truth does not support their plan? Can you guess? That is the case, so they will campaign vigorously for it by misleading us.

“The campaign will use Bush’s campaign-honed techniques of mass repetition, never deviating from the script and using the politics of fear to build support — contending that a Social Security financial crisis is imminent when even Republican figures show it is decades away….” (from The Washington Post, Jan 14, 2004)

Did you notice?

• “mass repetition, never deviating from the script”

That means: avoid reality, keep telling the same lies over and over and over and over. A good strategy for tyrants. Just keep lying. After a while people begin to get worn down. It’s a classic technique for convincing people to do something that is not good for them or that they don’t want to do, a technique that has been practiced effectively across a wide range of human relationships, from 5-year-olds wanting ice cream from reluctant parents, all the way to mass murderers wanting ever more power and freedom to inflict terrors on victims near and far.

• “Using the politics of fear”

Would this American President deliberately choose to sell us a bad idea by trying to SCARE us? Obviously. He has proven it on numerous occasions. Do you remember, for example, “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and the threat of a “mushroom cloud”, and how intensely they pushed that false fear on us?

As has so often been the case, the only “crisis” is that Bush and his owners want this! That’s not enough reason for us to undermine our kids’ and our grandkids’ and millions of other kids’ futures. Bush’s owners are already very well heeled. They really do not need this.

So we have:

• Incessant repetition of scripted lies, with
• deliberate cultivation of false fears,
• all for the purpose of selling us something that will enrich them, will hurt us, and that is completely unnecessary.

This is not a credible or honorable plan. These are not credible people. And it seems they are not even honorable people.

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