A stockbroker in a three-piece suit walks into a grade school classroom and steals the children's lunch money. He takes it to the lush office of a Wall Street brokerage.
George Bush stands in front of a casino, urging a passing senior couple to invest their money inside so they will live in luxury. When the couple emerges without a dime, Bush tells them to borrow some money from their kids so they can win back their losses.
"But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." - George Bush 5/30/03. "By the time today's workers who are in their mid-20's begin to retire, the system will be bankrupt. Bush 1/11/05. "There's a saying in Texas. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on... on... you can't be fooled again!"
Where will Congress get the money? (biscobosco on Tue Jan 11th, 2005 at 17:11:15 PST)
Image of FDR signing Social Security legislation.
The narrator says "It took a Democratic President to create Social Security."
Cut to an image of George Bush at his desk signing legislation (or something)
The narrator says "Now a Republican President wants to privatize it"
Cut to a graphic
Narrator: "It will cost trillions of dollars to change social security to a risky privatization scheme"
Image of a handsome college guy.
Narrator: "And where will Congress get the money?"
Image of good looking "grandpa" type
Narrator: "Why by borrowing from the Social Security Trust Fund, of course!"
Fade to image of young, college-age woman, then image of motherly-type
Narrator: "And passing the debt on to the young."
Close-up of another "grandpa" type with a smile, then fade to a picture of a college-age man in front of a world map.
Narrator: "Investing retirement funds in the stock market is risky. Just look at Enron."
Fade to picture of elderly woman and a motherly-type woman holding a young girl.
Cut to graphic with words "Call Congress Today.
Narrator: "Call Congress today. Tell them you want to keep Social Security Safe from privatization."
Fade-in words: "Urge them to keep Social Security Safe".
"Ding-dong" moms here (biscobosco on Wed Jan 12th, 2005 at 18:16:51 PST)
a 30-something couple walks by "sold sign" & up their front walk.
Smiling and in love... he trips her jokingly on couch & start madly smooching & groping.
doorbell rings. fluster, pat hair in place..
It's mom 65 , with suitcase, dog on leash, etc.
Mom: "since the reductions in SS I couldnt afford to keep the house"
You're ruining my life! (tejassaluki on Wed Jan 12th, 2005 at 18:58:03 PST)
Mom to stylish teenage daughter: "please turn off the iPod for a minute -- we need to talk. I'm sorry Grandma's going to have to move in with us. Do you want to share your room with Grandma or would you rather share your little brother's room?"
(Cut from shot of very unstylish Grandma to shot of obnoxious little brother picking nose)
Teenager rolls eyes: "Mom! You can't do this to me! You're ruining my life!"
Beggar world (mmacdDE on Wed Jan 12th, 2005 at 21:42:55 PST)
Well dressed 20 something on his way to work. Has to run a gamut of elderly beggars, dressed in rags, grabbing at him.
Gets to work, his parents call. They need money. The mortgage is due, and since their income has dropped because of the SS restructuring, they need help.
Then his grandma shows up, also begging for money.
Next his boss comes in, tells him all these personal calls and visits have to stop, or he'll be fired.
Guy turns to the camera and says 'Do you REALLY want this? Or do you want to fund SS and help make sure that your parents and grandparents don't spend their senior years begging YOU for money? And remember -- you're next...'
Bush's Social Security Math (Lestatdelc on Wed Jan 12th, 2005 at 14:03:12 PST)
2-1=4
Some things never change (Sherri in TX on Wed Jan 12th, 2005 at 15:17:02 PST)
People jumping out of windows in 1929, and headlines of the Enron scandal and Worldcom with a voiceover saying.
"The more things change, the more things stay the same.. Is this really where we want to put our hardearned social security taxes. Are we willing to risk our future for the promise of a fast buck? Americans needs to know they can depend on Social security.
Increasing the retirement age to 66 or increasing the amount of wages we pay social security taxes on is a lot simpler and safer way to protect our future. Tell the Republicans, you like the way social works now. Don't let them cut the benefits of the many, so a few can prosper."
Dignity (Subversive on Wed Jan 12th, 2005 at 15:23:31 PST)
[FDR signing bill]
Following the stock market calamity of the Great Depression, in 1935, Franklin Delanor Roosevelt created Social Security to insure that people who had worked hard their entire lives would always be able to retire in dignity.
[Brokers in a mad frenzy]
Today, friends of Wall Street see an opportunity to make a fast buck off of your lack of financial expertise.
[Expand from the brokers on tv to an elderly couple, with extremely luxurient dining room table and china, etc., and the tv going on in the background with a bunch of stock market ding ding noises and stock bidding and such.]
The stock market will always go up in the lo-oo-ong term, but experience has shown it is not at all a steady ride.
[Elderly couple again, can popping noise, news report on tv says something like "and the markets continue to plummet, with loser outnumbering the winners...," and then a pitiful look of embarassment on the old man's face as he serves his elderly wife a can of cat food on the fine dinner plate.]
Never gamble what you can't afford to lose.
[black screen with the word "dignity" unexpanding into the following string of text]
Social Security: Insurance that guarantees your dignity in retirement.
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