I’ll preface this by saying it is my first diary so feel free to delete if inappropriate or redundant. 🙂
Maybe I missed it, but these comments Bush made haven’t really seemed to spark all that much indignation around these parts. Is everyone just burned out from the sheer volume of indignations perpetrated by this administration?
Now, a personal savings account would be a part of a Social Security retirement system. It would be a part of what you would have to retire when you reach retirement age. As you — as I mentioned to you earlier, we’re going to redesign the current system. If you’ve retired, you don’t have anything to worry about — third time I’ve said that. (Laughter.) I’ll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
-George W. Bush, from whitehouse.gov
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I can’t recall anyone openly admitting this before. Sure, the conventional wisdom, yadda yadda, but come on – no one is really disturbed by this admission? I don’t believe the great propagandists of the past would have dared trumpet their trade so brazenly. We have all endured countless Orwellian statements from this president and administration before, some horrifying and some just plain absurd, but this just seemed to slap me hard across the face. I guess for him to be that bold, it makes me angry and frankly – terrified for our country. I’m so tired of the deception and arrogance and tools of division this administration seems to pride itself on. We don’t need that division in our community. There are so many important issues on which we can all find common ground. These days, I just wish we – as progressive-minded people of all stripes – worried a lot less about pies and a lot more about unity.
So that’s why I’m jumping in with my two cents. If it can motivate me to get up from the couch and pitch in, I can at least hope it may do the same for someone else.
We are all in this together. Peace.