Doesn't Own Up to Record of Failure
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Campaign for America's Future Co-
director Robert Borosage said President Bush will finally give Americans a
hint tonight about what he intends to do in his second term, beyond the
quagmire in Iraq. President Bush plans to address "compassionate" domestic
issues, focusing on dismantling our shared security with individual risk, when
he accepts the Republican nomination for president in New York City tonight.
STATEMENT OF ROBERT BOROSAGE
Bush's plan erodes our shared security and increases individual risk so
working people would take it in the teeth. Look behind the empty political
rhetoric of "compassionate conservatism" and the "ownership society."
The Bush plan cuts Social Security's guaranteed benefits to set up
individual risk accounts, slashes Medicare coverage by turning it into a
voucher program, encourages businesses to discontinue health benefits and
leaves employees to fend for themselves.
Americans have every reason to look beneath the president's rhetoric. Four
years ago, candidate Bush promised that his massive tax cuts would come from
the "money left over" after paying down the national debt, protecting the
Social Security trust funds and investing in education and health care. The
massive Bush tax cuts helped produce the largest deficits ever, the worst jobs
record since the Great Depression, and squandered the Social Security surplus.
Its not surprising that Bush is selling ownership rather than owning up to
the failure of his economic policies. He can't get re-elected on his
performance, so he's peddling promises and patriotism to distract from a
record of failure.
SOURCE Campaign for America's Future
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