Another article about
bankrupt pensions. Specifically: bankrupting the agency setup to PROTECT private pensions FROM BANKRUPTING.
I've mentioned this sort of thing before.
Think about the following things:
There is a striking lack of concern about protecting the solvency of the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
There are attempts by companies to sue retirees to cut health benefits (synopsis here)
Already Bush is talking about "reforming" Social Security and "fixing" the tax code. By reforming Social Security, Bush means that he's going to underfund it and make all of us pay financial services companies to do somehting the gov't did for free.
More below:
BTW, did I
mention that privatizing SS is just a trillion dollar gift to the financial companies? Also the wet-dream of neo-cons everywhere to eliminate the Great Society and New Deal programs.
Health insurance costs have recently gone up (has anyone else noticed this? Health ins has gone up for friends of mine in the past few weeks) again and we're being told to set money aside for our golden years.
I look forward to discussing the election with any Bush voter.
"You voted against two guys buying a house 10 miles away from where you live, but you voted FOR more pointless death in Iraq."
"You voted against "higher taxes" but for FOR higher health costs."
"You voted FOR Pro-life, but against a living wage, how is someone supposed to care for a child without a living wage? Without healthcare? Without Daycare?"
"Your attitude is "SELF-RELIANCE", but you depend on the government everyday."
Those poor thick-headed sheep. They don't believe in sharing the burden, why do I have to carry theirs?