By Stephan Andrew Brodhead
Obama plays Social Security Card
18 May 2008 Gresham, Oregon
Barrack Obama 1st Term senator and Democrat candidate for president visited an assisted living home in Gresham, Oregon on Sunday. His message: We can save Social Security by raising taxes on our children. We can still support the 80 million strong 'Baby Boomer' with extravagant benefits if we raise the cap on Social Security payments from 6.2 percent to 30 percent of an individual's wage. This will ensure that the 2 workers supporting 1 person on entitlements will have enough money to buy food and live in a modest apartment. His message of 'change' was applauded by the group of seniors. The visit was cut short however, when the assisted living folks needed their regimen of high dollar prescription drugs totaling $27,000 paid for by Medicare. While departing the meeting, a young woman asked if her children will have to pay for the retirement and entitlement benefits for 1/3 the population. Mr. Obama replied 'yes we can'! The woman was then escorted off of the premises by a pair of uniformed drug company security officers.