Public speaking 101
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, came home Monday and summed up in two sentences the reasons that President Bush's proposal to move Social Security toward privatization likely will fail if it comes to a congressional vote in the next year or two.
"Democrats don't like it ... because we don't like gambling with a program that helps people," Davis said. "Republicans don't like it because they're, by and large, fiscal conservatives (who) don't think borrowing $3 trillion is a neat thing to do."
Davis also wowed a crowd of 300 with lines like this one: "Social Security says that we owe things to people regardless of who and what they are; we owe things to people who can't do anything for us because we're big enough and noble enough to believe in that."
Something tells me the U.S. House won't be the last stop in this guy's political career.
"Democrats don't like it ... because we don't like gambling with a program that helps people," Davis said. "Republicans don't like it because they're, by and large, fiscal conservatives (who) don't think borrowing $3 trillion is a neat thing to do."
Davis also wowed a crowd of 300 with lines like this one: "Social Security says that we owe things to people regardless of who and what they are; we owe things to people who can't do anything for us because we're big enough and noble enough to believe in that."
Something tells me the U.S. House won't be the last stop in this guy's political career.
posted by Alabamian at 3:45 PM
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