You ought to be reading Joshua Michah Marshall's Talking Points Memo if you are interested in Social Security Reform at all. Besides keeping track of those Democrats that will potentially flip and support President Bush's snake oil, he also lays out all the arguments about what this debate is really about. Today he commented on how the Social Security problem ties into the national debt and stated, "The guy who's the biggest threat to Social Security says he wants to 'save' it by abolishing the program and replacing it with private accounts."
He also stated, in a post on the argument that Democrats don't trust the people, "The truth is that it's the president, more than anyone else, who doesn't trust people to decide what to do with their own money and their own futures. If he did, he wouldn't be lying to them so much about Social Security. He'd be arguing for his phase-out plan on the merits." And there it is. The people who want to destroy Social Security can hardly openly say they'd like to destroy Social Security so they are playing these games to convince us they don't want to destroy it.
They really do want to destroy Social Security.
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