To express his concern that "African Americans die sooner than other males," President Bush is proposing to ease the pain of a shorter lifespan--not by improving healthcare access, but by gambling away Social Security on the stock market. While there is a seven-year difference in the life expectancy of black and white men, it's largely caused by the higher rates of black infant mortality. Bush isn't proposing to do anything about that.
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