Right Thinking From The Left Coast
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if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

The Truth About Blacks and Dollars
by Lee

Finally Bush is making the case he should be making, that Social Security is an abomination which rewards white families off the backs of black families.

Race became a significant factor in the debate over Social Security on Tuesday when President Bush told black leaders that the government retirement program shortchanged blacks, whose relatively shorter life span meant they paid more in payroll taxes than they eventually received in benefits.

Bush’s comments came during a private White House meeting with 22 black religious and business leaders who backed his re-election last year - marking a new line of argument in the president’s attempts to win support for adding worker-owned investment accounts to Social Security.

The conversation demonstrated the White House’s determination to build on outreach efforts to blacks that proved effective in battleground states last year, adding Social Security to a list of moral issues - such as opposition to same-sex marriage and support for faith-based social programs - that Republicans see as providing common ground with black conservatives.

White House officials did not release a transcript of the hourlong meeting, but several participants said Bush was adamant that his Social Security plan had special appeal to blacks - and that he intended to make that point in public.

“He brought to our attention that African-Americans in particular need to understand how Social Security in its present condition affects the African-American community,” said Michelle D. Bernard, senior vice president of the conservative Independent Women’s Forum, a Washington policy group.

Social Security, as it exists today, is one of the most racist programs the government has ever devised, and it’s time that black America was made aware of this fact.

Posted by Lee on 01/26/05 at 11:09 AM in Politics, Law, & Economics  • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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