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This particular cartoon speaks to the reception of this idea of getting rid of social security and initiating a personal responsibility movement when it comes to retirement funds. President Bush is shown as a pitcher in a baseball uniform and his team is shown as " Social Security Reform". He winds up and delivers the pitch but the last frame of the comic shows him looking off into the distance. The reader is left to assume the pitch was possibly knocked out of the park, in which case, the pitch of social security reform was not received well by the general population and for that matter, utterly rejected. It is believed that the social security reform that the president is proposing will place many people's retirement in danger for the sheer fact that much of the money that will be saved is expected to be placed in the stock market which does not guarantee profit. As a matter of fact, may people have taken severe losses which have even led to bankruptcy. Another part of the......

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