Gunn says Bush played politics with a hate crimes bill that passed the Texas House of Representatives after the gruesome dragging death of James Byrd, an African American, by three white men. Because the legislation was opposed fiercely among Bush's core conservative constituency, but immensely popular with a public shocked by the racist killing, Gunn charged that in an effort to avoid angering either his supporters or the public, Bush let his cronies in the Texas State Senate bottle up the bill until the legislative session was over. And one worker looked into the future and warned about Bush's plans for Social Security . Irene Ford spent 28 years on her feet. She's applied for Social Security, but wonders what would happen to workers like her if the Social Security eligibility age were raised, as Bush has suggested.
Folks are half dead when they retire.
They'd be dead by the time they get to 70.