Yeah, that's right! Bush and his pals want to OWN America.
Promises of wealth and easy living, wrapped up in Buzz words. This is just the latest ultra-Right-wing bait'n'switch scheme designed to enrich the insiders while impoverishing and disenfranchising ordinary Americans.
Like Georgie-boy keeps saying, fiefdom is on the march!
Today it's 'Privatizing Social Security'. Tomorrow it'll be 'Tort Reform', so they'll have immunity when they're caught stealing our 'Privatized Social Security'.
The Kansas City Star
Posted on Wed, Feb. 02, 2005
Bush Offering Expanded 'Ownership Society'
NANCY BENAC
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Richard Nixon promised a "new American revolution." Ronald Reagan pushed his "new federalism." Bill Clinton invoked a "new covenant." Now, George Bush is offering Americans a new, expanded "ownership society." ...
...the president is taking the noble idea of an "ownership society" and using it to sugarcoat a scheme that would unwisely saddle ordinary Americans with even greater risks and costs for Social Security, health care, retirement benefits and other programs.
"Hokum, that's a good word for it," says former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "They have a knack for putting labels on their policies that stand for exactly the opposite of what the policies aim to achieve." ...
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