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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 12:41 AM
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3. "hey hey ho ho, Social Security has got to go!"
actual chant by Santorum supporters...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/23/ip.01.html

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JOE JOHNS, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It has all the trappings of a political campaign. Signs, chants and true believers on both sides, disagreeing on whether younger Americans would get a burden or a benefit from private retirement accounts.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't want them to have to worry about Social Security, worry about whether the stock market's going to go up or down.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a lot better than getting nothing, which, if we don't do anything, that's what's going to happen.

JOHNS: It's Drexel University in Philadelphia, day two of a week-long Social Security state tour by Republican senator Rick Santorum, pitchman for the president's plan. College Republicans show up to support him. They're trying to persuade people that there is a genuine crisis in Social Security and that the program needs to be modernized to survive. But at one point, it sounds more like they want to scrap it.

CROWD: Hey, hey, ho, ho, Social Security's got to go!

JOHNS: Not exactly the message the president is trying to send.
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