Bush misrepresents Moynihan

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Author Message   ina Citizen Username: Ina Post Number: 173 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 12:38 pm:        http://www.nydailynews.com/02-27-2005/news/ideas_opinions/story/284774p-243970c. html ... and Roosevelt, and....   cjc Citizen Username: Cjc Post Number: 3202 Registered: 8-2003 Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 9:19 pm:        OK, it's a fair debate whether personal accounts should be on top of or within the Social Security system. What Ms. Moynihan doesn't venture is what her dear dad would have done to patch up the existing system. She alludes to cutting benefits and raising taxes ala Dole/O'Neill's work where they kicked the can down the road a bit, but she loses her nerve to call for the same in the name of her father. Guess the connection at the seance fizzled out at just the right time. Raise the ceiling of income that's taxable and you buy 6 years before the same problem restarts itself. And then.....? Then you get silence and political posturing.   Rastro Citizen Username: Rastro Post Number: 748 Registered: 5-2004 Posted on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - 7:54 am:        cjc, but her issue is not that there is a better way. It's that Bush is misusing the words of her father, and using them for a purpose contrary to his beliefs.