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How can these serious operational impediments in the Social Security process be turned into substantial
savings. A number of possible suggestions could be made:
1. If Dr. Strandberg says it is broke why spend years trying to prove
his diagnosis and Contract with Washington State wrong-repair the disability.
2. Agencies, doctors, and other providers who prescribe a course of medical treatment of a disability should not
be paid if the prescribed work is not completed unless the patient dies. Paying organizations to prescribe treatment
which never occurs is wrong.
3. While most taxpayers might agree that special or extended stay programs for the elderly, physically or mentally
disabled why maintain golden parachute programs for professional convicted felons; drug abusers; alcholics; and other
persons whose injuries are self inflicted and likely to recur as a result of their own misbehavior?
4. Improve interoperability between programs operated by US Department of HUD; nonprofit agencies; and Social Security
to end the homeless travel agency where clients are compelled to travel 20,000 miles a year in a network which provides
a few days of shelter each month.
5. Homeless Shelters which are chronically unable to pass a simple
audit for health and safety concerns should have their nonprofit status revolked.
6. Provide US District Courts jurisdiction for an emergency right of review to intervene where Social Security officials have taken
administrative disability reviews far out of bounds of what the law or statutes provides. Social Security might also consider
instituting a toll free complaint line for civil rights and similar abuses to be reported.
7. Executable Offenses? a person might wonder if officials engaged in genocide; crimes against humanity;
;terrorist activities; sedition; or treason should be discretely executed by the Department of Homeland Security and or maybe get really radical and make
sure everyone working at SSA is trained and qualified to do their job?
US Senator Johy Kyl
2200 East Camelback, Suite 120
Phoenix, Arizona 85016-3455
Phone: (602) 840-1891
Fax: (602) 957-6838
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Former US Senator Gordon Smith
One World Trade Center
121 SW Salmon Street, Suite 1250
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: 503.326.3386
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"I Can't Return Home To Arizona"
US Senator John Kyl is quoted as explained that he has been a loyal Republical for a long time but
if he approved the legislation the Bush Administration requested he could never
return home to Arizona. Former US Senator Gordon Smith ran television ads in 2008
attempting to get re-elected explaining he personally bitch slapped the Bush Administration
on the question of medicare cut offs.
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President George Bush
& Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
202.863.8500
Fax: 202.863.8820
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Congress Rejects Bush Plan Again
Friday, February 16, 2007
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- An advocate of partially privatizing Social Security, nominated by President Bush to become deputy
director of the half-billion-dollar retirement income program, has been rejected by Senate Democrats.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said his panel will neither consider nor hold hearings on
Bush's choice of Andrew Biggs, who was an outspoken enthusiast behind the president's ill-fated plan two years ago
to let people divert some of their Social Security taxes into private investment accounts.
"It's a bad idea to give the No. 2 position at the Social Security Administration to someone who still supports
that failed proposal," Baucus said. White House spokesman Alex Conant said Baucus is wrong to deny the Senate
and public a chance to hear from the nominee. "By blocking the nominee, Senator Baucus is blocking an open and
honest debate," Conant said. "If the senator wants a real discussion of how to make Social Security solvent for
our children and grandchildren, then let's have a hearing."
Biggs is now associate commissioner for retirement policy at the Social Security Administration. Reached at his
office, Biggs said he had met with Baucus but declined to comment on the senator's statement.
"It's not something I feel really comfortable talking about," he said.
$13 trillion deficit looms for Social Security
Tuesday, September 25th 2007, 4:00 AM
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER,
AP Economics Writer
September 24th, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said in a new report yesterday that Social Security is facing a
$13.6 trillion shortfall in coming years and that delaying reforms is not fair to younger workers.
A report issued by the Treasury Department said that some combination of benefit cuts and tax increases will
need to be considered to permanently fix the funding shortfall. White House officials stressed that the President
is opposed to new taxes. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he hoped the new report would help find common ground on the politically divisive issue, but a key Democrat charged the administration will still try to fix Social Security by imposing sharp benefit reductions.
"The administration's new report is a reminder of President Bush's determination to not only privatize Social Security but to make deep cuts in the benefits that American workers have earned," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
"Nobody should be fooled into believing that the only way to save Social Security is to destroy it with privatization or deep benefit cuts," he said. Bush had hoped to make Social Security reform the top domestic priority. He put forward a reform plan in 2005 that went nowhere fast.
The Associated Press
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