LETTERS: Don’t trust Bush Social Security plan

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To the editor:
   
George W. Bush and his cronies are at it again. Not content with the mess they made during President Bush’s first term, and deluded by visions of a non-existent electoral "mandate," President Bush and company are now threatening to dismantle one of America’s most reliable and long-standing government programs: Social Security.
   Americans should have been forewarned. During the 2000 election, President Bush mysteriously implied that Social Security wasn’t a government program. After becoming President, he squandered a golden opportunity to make Social Security self-sustaining for the foreseeable future, instead wasting the Clinton-era government surplus on unnecessary tax cuts for the rich and an unjustified war.
   Now, President Bush claims Social Security is ‘broken" and that he can save it only by privatizing the plan.
   George W. Bush has broken everything else he’s tried to fix: Iraq, Medicare and the deficit. Why should we trust him with our retirement savings?
Eddie Konczal
Monroe