Bush faces Republican resistance on Social Security
by Adam Entous
Mon May 2, 2005 10:14 PM ET Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's plan to shore up Social Security by reducing promised benefits for all but low-income retirees is meeting resistance from some Senate Republicans, casting new doubt on Bush's top domestic priority, Republican aides and officials said.
A USA Today/CNN poll released on Monday also showed Bush with the worst approval-disapproval ratings of his presidency -- 35 percent to 58 percent -- on the Social Security issue. The proposal he backed last week for "progressive indexing" was opposed 54 percent to 38 percent. [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8366230 or http://tinyurl.com/8flw4 I really feel safer now! Kidding aside, we don't want any more psychopath kids getting even with the world in the schools.
© Virginia Metze
Mon May 2, 2005 10:14 PM ET Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's plan to shore up Social Security by reducing promised benefits for all but low-income retirees is meeting resistance from some Senate Republicans, casting new doubt on Bush's top domestic priority, Republican aides and officials said.
A USA Today/CNN poll released on Monday also showed Bush with the worst approval-disapproval ratings of his presidency -- 35 percent to 58 percent -- on the Social Security issue. The proposal he backed last week for "progressive indexing" was opposed 54 percent to 38 percent. [...] Read the rest at:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8366230 or http://tinyurl.com/8flw4 I really feel safer now! Kidding aside, we don't want any more psychopath kids getting even with the world in the schools.
© Virginia Metze
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