WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: 'I don't really understand. How is the new plan going
to fix
the problem?'

Verbatim response: PRESIDENT BUSH:

'Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost
drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the
table.
Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases.
There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And
when you
couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing
those
with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more
likely to
be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any
sense to
you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause
the --
like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of
wages, as
opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we
calculate -- the
benefits will rise based upon inflation, supposed to wage increases. There
is a
reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In
other
words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if
those --
if that growth is affected, it will help on the red.'
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/muddled.asp


Is this the guy that gets to run the US?
Holly ****.