Bush Explains Medicare Drug Bill

[DIVERTOM]

-- Verbatim Quote
Submitted on 2005-12-13 16:35:14
WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: "I don't really understand. How is the new plan going to fix the problem?"
Verbatim response ~ PRESIDENT BUSH:
"Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise based upon inflation, supposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help on the red."

[DIVERTOM]

Can someone decipher this for me I don't speak Texbonics.

[Bill McIntyre]

Reminds me of the movie I saw yesterday, "American Dreamz." It was obviously a sendup of Bush, but they didn't even attempt to mimic his speech.

[Redneck7]

They just need to keep him on a tight leash so far as public statements are concerned because he has proven time and again that he cannot speak coherently off the cuff to save his life and either he can't read or his speech writers are horrible because he doesn't do so well with written speeches either.

[jackpine savage]

Andover, Yale and Harvard. Maybe he should get a refund on that expensive education of his.