Over the years, Democrats have raised serious anxiety over the state of the social security program. All their harping convinced most of us that we would never get our share, and caused us to accept the fact that the system was bankrupt.

The wails and cries of the Democratic party are being addressed by the President. Bush is proposing new adjustments to the faltering, almost non-existent system. For decades the conservatives have been warning us that the tax-and-spend strategy practiced by our government was leading us down a one-way street to fiscal disaster.

Now, here we are in dire straits.

To combat the problem, the president is suggesting that we give individual wage-earners control over their own money. In essence, they can keep their money where it currently is or they can invest it privately; like some elected officials already have the option of doing.

What's so bad about that? It's your own option. Nobody is forcing you to keep your money where it is and no one will force you to invest it elsewhere. The Democrats say that Bush is bad because he has answered their cries.

Which is it?

First Social Security was bankrupt; now Social Security is fine. Have they been crying "wolf" all these years? Finally, someone has called their bluff and all of a sudden the system is A-Okay. It's impossible to keep track of all their lies. We all know that when things get hot the liberal Democrats will jump up on the fence and talk out of both sides of their mouth.

That way they never have to actually take a public stance on anything, and can continue to avert the public's attention to those who'd speak the truth about where they stand.

Hillary Clinton is a prime example. She secretly stands for atheism, same-sex marriages, abortion, and anti-family legislation, just like the other liberal Democrats, but they're all too scared to say it themselves. Our Social Security system could be thriving if these same people weren't killing babies. See, then there would be more people to add to the system, like the baby boomer generation was doing. Well there, I just said it for them. Think they feel better?

Hillary will pretend to be a moderate and cloud the issues until she's elected. Then the rat will jump out of the woodpile and once again we'll see her as she really is.

Now the president feels forced to run an expensive ad campaign so the American people can get the truth about his proposals instead of all the lies that are being spread like so much manure by the Democrats. Thanks again, Dems, for wasting our money.

If Bush succeeds the liberals will be right there to take the credit, and if he fails they'll be quick to lay blame. Anything but working together so all Americans can have a decent quality of life.

Judy Ducayne's column appears Tuesdays in The Citizen. She can be reached at sacredheart6005@hotmail.com