Just one of the above or all three?
Over at the Klueless Kos Klan, contributor ‘Hunter’ informs all who stop by about the new anti-private Social Security account campign.
WASHINGTON Apr 3, 2005 —
A new organization created to defeat President Bush’s plans for Social Security intends to open a television ad campaign this week depicting the proposal as the tip of an iceberg that will cut benefits and raise the national debt.
Erik Smith, a spokeman for ProtectYourCheck.org, said the group will spend nearly $1 milion to show the commercial on cable stations nationally over the next three weeks. Other ads will follow on broadcast stations, he said, aimed at individual lawmakers of both parties. […]The commercial by ProtectYourCheck is designed to strengthen that skepticism.
It opens with the picture of an iceberg jutting above the water. “The plan that George Bush and his backers in Congress have to privatize Social Security. Look below the surface and you’ll find … benefit checks cut almost in half. $5 trillion in new debt,” says the announcer.
I pointed out the lie beneath the Democrat’s SSI benefit calculator a while back, but that was apparently not good enough. They are now pulling numbers straight out of their ass and advertising them as truth.