Terrorism - Using Social Security to Fight Bush’s War :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

Using Social Security to Fight Bushs War   I have a rational care a fear that the September 11th attack has given the Bush administration a free hand in pursuing a button-down domestic agenda. This has so far been unspeakable in the media. But it must be said, lest it happen for sure.   Where is the $40 billion for the war on terror climax from? Not from a rise in taxes and not from sacrifices to be made by the rich. Where then? The only available source I can hold of is the Social Security lockbox, which is now wide open. The conservatives have been trying to raid the Social Security fund for some time, and the Democrats had fought them off until now. Before September 11, the trace to take $40 billion from the Social Security surplus would have been indefensible. Has it now been done-with every Democratic senator voting for it and all but one of the Democrats in Congress?   Think of it Are your retirement contributions-and mine-are going to fight Bushs war. No one d ares to talk about it that way. Its just $40 billion, as if it came out of nowhere. No one says that $40 billion dollars comes from your retirement contributions. No one talks about increasing taxes. We should at least ask just where the money is flood tide from.   If the money is coming from tender security, then Bush has achieved a major goal of his partisan conservative agenda-without fanfare, without notice, and with the support of virtually all Democrats.   Calling for war, kinda of mere justice, has given the conservatives free rein. I fear it will only be a matter of time before they claim that we need to exercising for oil in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge for national security reasons. If that most pristine place falls, they will use the national security excuse to employment and mine coal all over the country. The energy program will be pushed through as a matter of national security. All social programs will be dismissed for lack of funds, which will be diverted to national security.   Cheney has said that this war may never be completed. Newt Gingrich estimates at least four or five years, certainly past the 2004 election. With no definition of victory and no exit strategy, we may be entering a state of perpetual war.