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> Prime Time News Conference good time for press/public to hold Bush accountable for false statements

29 April 2005, 17:35

I noticed Bush didn’t actually say there was no trust fund last night, perhaps someone is coaching him. But he appears to be blaming congress now... ""Yet there’s a hole in the safety net because Congresses have made promises it cannot keep for a younger generation" which is convenient however congress hasn’t been going around explaining that the money they borrowed from SS for tax cuts and war is actually only backed by worthless IOU’s that the government has no intention of paying back. And did we really need those tax cuts because I’m positive we didn’t need that war? I’m not sure but I think it was Bush that pushed for these things, not congress. Congress deserves responsibility for letting Bush make them look like incompetent fools that have never read the constitution but that’s a story for another day.

Bush State of the union 2001-"To make sure the retirement savings of America’s seniors are not diverted to any other program, my budget protects all $2.6 trillion of the Social Security surplus for Social Security, and for Social Security alone."

Bush 2005- "Some in our country think that Social Security is a trust fund — in other words, there’s a pile of money being accumulated. That’s just simply not true. The money — payroll taxes going into the Social Security are spent. They’re spent on benefits and they’re spent on government programs. There is no trust."