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Year—Old Politician

The battle over Social Security has been joined by an unusual lobbyist, a 9-year-old boy from Texas (George Bush’s hometown), who has agreed to travel around supporting President Bush’s proposal.

The boy, Noah McCullough, made a splash with his encyclopedic command of presidential history, earning five appearances on the “Tonight” show and some unusual experiences in the presidential campaign last year. He beat Howard Dean in a trivia contest at the Democratic National Convention and wrote for his local newspaper about his trip to see the inauguration.

“He’s very patriotic and very Republican,” said to the media Noah’s mother, Donna McCullough, a former teacher and self-described Democrat. “It’s the way he was born.”

In a sign of how far groups go to carry their message on Social Security, Progress for America has signed up Noah, a fourth grader, as a volunteer spokesman. He starts on spring break from James Williams Elementary School in Katy, Tex.

Progress for America, which spent almost $45 million backing Mr. Bush last year, plans to lay out $20 million on Social Security this year. It has spent $1 million on television commercials and is working to send experts around the country. Among them are Thomas Saving, a trustee of the Social Security Trust Fund; Rosario Marin, a former United States treasurer; and one really, really young Republican. Noah will not be eligible to collect Social Security for nearly 60 years.

Noah will travel to a handful of states ahead of visits by the president and will go on radio programs, answer trivia questions and say a few words about Social Security. Though he is obviously not an expert (and not really a lobbyist, either), officials say the effort is a lighthearted way to underline Mr. Bush’s message.

“What I want to tell people about Social Security is to not be afraid of the new plan,” Noah said. “It may be a change, but it’s a good change.”

The trip was a brainchild of Stuart Roy, a former aide to Representative Tom DeLay, Republican of Texas, who recently joined the DCI Group, a political consultancy here with ties to the Republican Party and Mr. Bush.

Noah became interested in presidents as a 5-year-old after a mock election in kind-ergarten. Today, he has more than 3,000 books on presidential history. He campaigned for Mr. Bush, speaking to Republican groups. After 27 trips to the first President Bush’s presidential library at Texas A&M University in College Station, he scored a meeting with the former president.

Noah plans to run for the White House in 2032 — and he wants Social Security addressed before then.

9歲小政客

布什竭力推行的社會(huì)保障制度改革多了一個(gè)不尋常的說(shuō)客,一名來(lái)自布什老家得克薩斯州的九歲小男孩,應(yīng)總統(tǒng)的邀請(qǐng)為社保改革進(jìn)行全國(guó)巡回演講。

這個(gè)名叫諾亞·馬克庫(kù)拉夫的小男孩在美國(guó)知名度頗高,被稱為“美國(guó)總統(tǒng)歷史的百科全書”,美國(guó)著名的脫口秀節(jié)目“今夜”曾經(jīng)五次邀請(qǐng)諾亞上節(jié)目,去年諾亞因?yàn)閹椭际哺?jìng)選總統(tǒng)而為自己更增添了不平凡的經(jīng)歷。他曾在民主黨大會(huì)上的一次小辯論中擊敗霍華德·迪安,還為當(dāng)?shù)貓?bào)紙寫過(guò)關(guān)于他所看到的就職典禮。

諾亞的媽媽唐娜·馬克庫(kù)拉夫,曾經(jīng)當(dāng)過(guò)老師并自稱是民主黨,她說(shuō):“諾亞非常愛(ài)國(guó),而且他是個(gè)不折不扣的共和黨人,他生下來(lái)就是這樣。”

在一次關(guān)于如何進(jìn)行社保改革的團(tuán)體簽名活動(dòng)中,美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)通過(guò)簽名同意諾亞,一位四年級(jí)的小學(xué)生,成為志愿工作者。初春他就要暫時(shí)告別位于德克薩斯州凱蒂鎮(zhèn)的詹姆士·威廉斯小學(xué)了。

去年,國(guó)會(huì)為支持布什推行社保改革花費(fèi)了4,500萬(wàn)美元,今年國(guó)會(huì)將撥款減少到2,000萬(wàn),其中100萬(wàn)用來(lái)進(jìn)行電視宣傳和聘請(qǐng)全國(guó)各地的專家開展工作,這些專家包括社會(huì)保障信托基金主管托馬斯·斯文、前國(guó)家財(cái)務(wù)主管羅薩里奧·瑪林等等,而其中還有一個(gè)很年輕很年輕的共和黨人,那就是諾亞了,而小諾亞至少要在60年以后才有資格享受社會(huì)保障制度。

諾亞將作為開路先鋒在布什訪問(wèn)之前先到達(dá)那些州,他將到電臺(tái)接受聽眾咨詢,或者談?wù)動(dòng)嘘P(guān)社會(huì)保障制度的話題。盡管諾亞并不是專家,也不是真正的政客,但是布什政府充分相信諾亞對(duì)改革的推行有幫助。

諾亞說(shuō):“我想告訴人們的是,不要害怕新的社會(huì)保障制度,它是一種改變,而且它會(huì)朝對(duì)民眾有利的方向改變。”

這次行程是斯圖爾特·羅伊的想法,他是德克薩斯州共和黨人代表湯姆·迪萊的前任助手,最近加入了DCI集團(tuán),是一名依附于共和黨和布什先生的政治顧問(wèn)。

諾亞5歲的時(shí)候,幼兒園進(jìn)行了一次模仿美國(guó)總統(tǒng)選舉的游戲,從那時(shí)開始諾亞就對(duì)總統(tǒng)產(chǎn)生了興趣。到現(xiàn)在,諾亞擁有的關(guān)于美國(guó)總統(tǒng)歷史的書籍超過(guò)了 3,000本。在共和黨聚集大會(huì)上他發(fā)表演說(shuō)支持布什,跟隨布什游歷了27個(gè)州,在得克薩斯州的總統(tǒng)博物館里他還見(jiàn)到了老布什。

諾亞的目標(biāo)是在2032年入主白宮——他希望到那個(gè)時(shí)候社會(huì)保障制度早就已經(jīng)很完善了。

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