The public statement by Nancy Pelosi is excellent. We need to reinforce that with our own statements to local newspapers and get this idea into people's heads. WE know that Bush is planning to steal the trust fund; tell everyone else.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
This we have learned from George W Bush himself. At an appearance in Parkersburg, WV, he told the people assembled that there is no Social Security Trust Fund, just a collection of worthless papers in filing cabinets. This means that the trillions of dollars that working men and women have paid in Social Security taxes to build up the trust fund, since 1983 when Alan Greenspan himself first proposed increasing payments to plan for the retirement of baby boomers, has all been used to lower taxes for the rich. For the last 22 years, your overpayment into Social Security has been used to finance government spending instead of having all Americans paying their fair share. And now, you've been told that the money you loaned will not be paid back.
Republicans like to talk about how Democrats are engaging in class warfare when talking about social issues and tax rates. As it turns out, the war has been waged for over two decades. It's only now that the enemy has let the mask slip enough for the common man to see the face of it clearly.