zatoichi wrote:
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 ****.



Yep. Sadly we got the leaders we deserve. You can't blame him, it's the people
of the US you have to blame.

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Abrasha
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