Bush and his cronies are out to destroy our country (and others, too!) in pursuit of his "One World Order." This is part of a huge fascist plot to undermine democracies - including our constitutional republic.

For those who think this is extremist, take a look at a former thread about the NAFTA Superhighway.

And to those who continue to wave the flag patriotically, however thoughtlessly, don't think It Can't Happen Here. Don't think "This can't be happening!" It can, and is.

Maybe, finally, the immigration issue will cause our neighbors on the other side of the aisle to take time to look at the issues, not as right vs. left, but rather as right vs. wrong, even as Pat Buchanan writes "His" (Bush's) "refusal to defend and secure the borders is well-nigh impeachable....Time to lock and load."

Opponents of the Immigration Act are gathering in a March for America and are petitioning in accordance with Jefferson's Manual.

Despite the pervasive media buzz, the 109th Congress did little about social security insecurity. Now comes the good news that a dedicated group of retired military enlisted personnel prevailed in their three-and-a-half-year long pursuit for public disclosure of Bush’s U.S.-Mexico Social Security Totalization Agreement.

At a time when American citizens, especially the bulge generation of baby boomers, are increasingly uneasy about what part of their retirement income they can depend on social security to provide, Bush is preparing to sign into law without Congressional approval (though Congress would have 60 days to vote to reject it) the U.S.-Mexico Totalization agreement negotiated in June, 2004.

On December 7, I proposed a wealth surtax to pay for all past and future costs of the Iraq Occupation - not because I support a wealth surtax, but because I believe it would end the occupation in a nanosecond because wealthy Americans would never be willing to pay for it.

Never could I have imagined that George Bush is also proposing to tax the rich!

Of course, Bush is trying to con Democrats into supporting Social Security privatization - something no Democrat who wants to be re-elected will support.

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Social Security turned 70 yesterday. And to almost everyone's surprise, the nation's most successful government program is still intact.

Just a few months ago the conventional wisdom was that President Bush would get his way on Social Security. Instead, Mr. Bush's privatization drive flopped so badly that the topic has almost disappeared from national discussion.

Many pundits and editorial boards still give Mr. Bush credit for trying to "reform" Social Security. In fact, Mr. Bush came to bury Social Security, not to save it. Over time, the Bush plan would have transformed Social Security from a social insurance program into a mutual fund, with nothing except a name in common with the system F.D.R. created.

(LA Times) MILWAUKEE -- As President Bush resumes his cross-country campaigning to promote his vision of Social Security restructuring, it's no secret that he's relying on outside organizations to help provide the supporting cast.

Yet a memo circulated this week among members of one group, Women Impacting Public Policy, illustrates the lengths to which the White House has gone to make sure that the right points are made at the president's public appearances.

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From Progressive Dems of America, via "SarahLee" over at KOS, comes this gem. Seems ol' Bill Frist needed some new shoes, only thing was, the shoe store was downstairs in the building where Americans United to Save Social Security's office is housed... Apparently the ad hoc demo started out with "Between 35-50 people from Americans United and the Campaign for Americas Future demonstrated against and spoke to Frist who said he support the President's plan which includes privatization and middle class benefit cuts..."

Call Homeland Security! It looks like Bush is casing the Treasury's bond vault to plan his heist of $1.7 TRILLION in Treasury Bonds.

[White House spokesman Taylor] Gross said one reason the president will make his third trip to Parkersburg in the last 11 months is to tour and be briefed on the Bureau of Public Debt, which employs nearly 1,700 men and women in Wood County.

"This is a center that, in a sense, houses the IOUs of Social Security," Gross said.

About $1.7 trillion in special-issue Treasury bonds that make up the Social Security trust fund are kept at the bureau.

"The president seeks to highlight the fact that the IOUs housed at Parkersburg are a good example of why this system needs to be fixed," Gross said.

Bush has repeatedly dismissed these bonds as possibly worthless:

3/10/05 Montgomery:

Every poll shows Bush is losing the Social Security battle.

But we all know that Bush hates to lose.

So now Bush is getting ugly, according to the Washington Post.

Bush concluded a three-state swing to sell his plan to restructure Social Security, warning Democratic opponents Tuesday that they will suffer political consequences if they continue to oppose his proposal without providing one of their own.

Flanked by Republican Sens. Pete V. Domenici (N.M.) and John McCain (Ariz.), Bush invited Democrats "to come to the table" to help devise a solution to shore up Social Security's finances. "I believe there will be bad political consequences for people who are unwilling to sit down and talk about the issue," he said.

Democratic leaders have said repeatedly that they are willing to sit down and talk - as soon as Bush takes privatization off the table.