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Two years ago, my parents started collecting their Social Security checks, thereby confirming what I had always thought them to
Two years ago, my parents started collecting their Social Security checks, thereby confirming what I had always thought them to
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2013-04-22
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Two years ago, my parents started collecting their Social Security checks, thereby confirming what I had always thought them to be old. When they talked to me about the need to save for my future, I’d just roll my eyes and turn up my stereo. Me, I was never going to be old.
College is a bubble of youthful idealism, nurturing the naive belief that young is forever, old is for parents. Several semesters and dozens of weekends separate most of us from entering the work-force, so how can we be expected to comprehend retirement? We see the money deducted from our part-time jobs that allows our grandparents to retire to Florida, but we never think for a moment that when we get that age, we won’t be able to retire in style-or at all. But this is the picture President Bush painted for us in his assault on our Social Security system at a White House forum last Tuesday and in his State of the Union address on Wednesday.
"If you’re 20 years old, in your mid-20s, and you’re beginning to work, I want you to think about a Social Security system that will be flat bust, bankrupt, unless the United States Congress has got the willingness to act now," Bush told the forum, using his usual rhetoric of impending doom. He argues that the best way to avoid catastrophe is to privatize the system, giving me and my fellow classmates more choice in how we prepare for retirement through personal accounts and investments. The inevitable outcry of opposition soon followed, with critics arguing that the money needed for such an overhaul and the people it would disadvantage are not worth the change Bush suggests.
I went in search of student opinion here at Michigan State with the intention of keeping politics and Social Security reform separate. We are, after all, talking about the financial future of generations to come, not something that should be decided on a partisan whim. But, to neglect the politics involved ultimately skews the whole issue, because .anything that involves allocating resources automatically becomes political. And as an inherent cynic about all politicians, I can’t help but wonder if Bush truly has the best interest of my generation in mind. Through four years of his administration, be has barely acknowledged our needs and now he wants to save us from a threat looming a half century away? I can’t help but be a little skeptical.
The opposition Bush faced argued that _________.
选项
A、Bush overhauled on the project
B、Bush’s plan will disadvantage so many people
C、Bush’s plan is more wasting and catastrophic
D、Bush’s plan intends to overspend money and benefit few people
答案
D
解析
细节题。文章第二段末尾提到:“…,with critics arguing that the money needed for such an overhaul and the people it would disadvantage are not worth the change Bush suggests.”(批评家认为布什提议的社会保障计划改革方案与将要花费在这上面的资金和对人们造成的损失相比,实在不值。),所以正确答案是D。
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