Jeb Bush amazes me (UPDATED WITH NEW INFO - CHECK IT OUT!)

[Samantha]

27. Yes, it is, n2doc

Fortunately, Bernie started batting this down in the last couple of days. I do think there is a chance that we will do better this time at dismantling their propaganda machine this run.

In preparing for the 2000 election, Karl Rove made a list of things to pit one group of Americans against another. He strove to keep the electorate so incensed with social issues, it would take its eye off the real goals the Republicans planned to implement. To a certain extent, that plan worked. We still see it operational today.

My hope is that in time more and more voters learn exactly how the Republicans manipulate driving hate and contempt into the election dialogue. Certainly though I do not mean to undermine some of those issues; I just do not believe differences of opinion on them should be used as weapons against us as a society.

Many young people believe they will not have Social Security benefits because the Babyboomers have drained the pot. This is not true. We are the only generation to pay for two sets of retirements -- one for the generation ahead of us as well as our own. This resulted from the compromise reached in the early 80s to "save" the plan from insolvency. That compromise also raised the retirement age. Young people might be right to believe Social Security might not be there for them, but it will be the Republicans, among them prominently Pete Peterson who wants it dissolved, not the Babyboomer generation that deprives them of this great benefit.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this matter.

Sam