After the success of my last image
"Birth Tax", I decided to put my art school education to some more use.
This time I tackle George Bush and social security. The image below is a photoshop collage of 4 different images.
Please use this artwork as you see fit as a visual tool to help get the message accross that there is no crisis.
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Mojo is nice but recommending this so more people can use it is oh so much better!
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Commentary and Social Security article after the jump
Bush continues to peddle the destruction of Social Security across the nation like some 2 bit used cars salesman. The only difference is his suit isn't tweed. The sell is the same. The reliance on people not being educated on the subject is the same. Same lies. Same game.
But unlike other crisis situations Bush has warned us about, people do know something about Social Security. People were able to be fooled on Iraq because most people didn't know much about it. It was all so far away. It was "over there" and we were trusting the white house to know better.
Not this time. This is right here at home. Bush is trying to sell young people on this idea of private investment accounts but the problem is todays young people know better. We are not ignorant on this subject. Many of us already have a ROTH IRA or 401 k or a similar account. We are already owners of private investments. Social Security is to be the backup. The one that will always be there. Don't let Bush take that away. Bush is going to find this thing a harder sell than he would like.......
In Montana, Bush Faces a Tough Sell on Social Security
Nowhere is the challenge facing President Bush on Social Security more apparent than here, at an open meeting held by Senator Max Baucus on Friday, the day after the White House road show rolled through Montana. [...]
The anxiety and confusion were palpable in the crowd, which was composed mostly of retirees - the very group assured by Mr. Bush, again and again, that they would not be affected. Why change the program so fundamentally, several asked. Sylvia Stugelmeyer, a retired courthouse worker, declared: "I'm against the privatization of Social Security. It was put into a trust for us many years ago, and I hope to God it stays that way."
Doris Lundin, 77, asked, "How much money has the government spent from Social Security and put in i.o.u.'s?" As the audience applauded, she added, "And why can't they pay it back?"
Mr. Baucus provided essential support to Mr. Bush on two of his most important domestic initiatives in his first term, the 2001 tax cut and the sweeping overhaul of Medicare. But not this time. "You've got to call them as you see them," Mr. Baucus says, and he seems comfortable in his opposition to the Bush plan, even in a state that Mr. Bush carried by 20 percentage points last fall. [...]
Mr. Baucus said his constituents were generally "very nervous" about private investment accounts in Social Security, and retirees, who are most likely to vote on the issue, "are quite opposed." He added, "It's new, it's radical, and it's so different from Social Security as they know it." [...]
But after the speech, when asked where he stood on the Bush plan, Mr. Burns said he was still "crunching numbers" and was worried about the deficit. Critics have asserted that the transition costs to create a system of private accounts would significantly worsen an already serious deficit.
The headline in The Tribune on Friday, right under "Bush Sells With Charm," said, "Montana's Lawmakers Still Aren't Convinced."