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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (613877)5/31/2011 11:59:41 AM
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>> and he failed to do anything about Social Security). The blame for that increase isn't all on Bush, the congress at the time, the congresses and presidents when the entitlement programs became law, and at the end of the decade Obama, all share blame, but a big chunk does go to Bush.

He made a serious effort WRT SS, and what he proposed would have made a significant difference over time. But he was shut down by essentially the same process that is now underway to kill the Ryan Medicare initiative.

I don't know what he was thinking with Medicare Part D. While the concept ought to be a model for revision of Medicare generally, it is a fact that we could not afford the new entitlement. And even if we could, it was a bad idea as Congress has now shown.
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