“Because the—all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There’s a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those—changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be—or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It’s kind of muddled. Look, there’s a series of things that cause the—like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate—the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those—if that growth is affected, it will help on the red.”
—Explaining his plan to save Social Security, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005
—Explaining his plan to save Social Security, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005
6 comments on “Dubya Making His Usual Amount of Sense”
Either I’m the idiot or he is, because that’s completely incoherent to me.
it’s him.
We may all be idiots, but that certainly makes little sense.
I would laugh, but the fact that this is the president talking is frickin’ scary O_o
Anyone who has worked help desk would know …
… this is how lotsa folk understand complex things. Frightening, yaa?
More than two thirds of people who expressed strong opinions could offer not a single argument in support of that opinion. Most arguments that were put forward were just plain wrong.
You can see that, as an activist, I’ve swung more and more towards processes and methods that stress folk working at their level rather than climbing aboard one band-wagon or another … the body politic is being lobotomized.
say what??????????????
what? again i apologize- i didn’t vote for him and im ashamed to know that most of america did.
Tina l.