A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.
How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.
Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.