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Originally posted by bilmore
There is no way that involves a time period of more than six months to "help workers" that doesn't involve "helping the economy." If you do something that "helps workers" at the expense of the economy, you'll have more workers hurt within that time. There's no big pot to take wealth from - it's the economy that fuels everything.
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If I kick you in the groin, take your wallet, and distribute its contents to club, Burger and wonk, the five of us are at least as well off in the aggregate -- you got some pain, but the rest of got to watch. This hypo has more relevance to outsourcing than most Republicans want to acknowledge.
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I thought it was over the "secret plan" to push this through quickly in January without talking about it.
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I like the way you twist Suskind's words to make them sound kooky. According to
CNN, Suskind "quoted Bush as saying at a recent private luncheon that he would 'come out strong' in a second term ''with fundamental tax reform, tort reform, privatizing of Social Security.''"
About Bush's plans,
DeLong writes:
- on Social Security, everyone understands--everyone--that there is a very strong faction inside the White House, probably headed by George W. Bush, that wants to roll out the partial privatization of Social Security in January. Take a look at the last Economic Report of the President, or at Ron Suskind's website.
Are Rosenbaum and Halbfinger genuinely ignorant of the discussions currently going on inside the Bush administration (as reported by people like David Wessel)? Nobody who has been following the issue and is not in the tank for the Bush administration could think that Rosenbaum and Halbfinger's "...the president was quoted as telling a group of Republican donors at a private meeting last month, 'I'm going to come out strong after my swearing-in with fundamental tax reform, tort reform, privatizing of Social Security.' Mr. Schmidt said Mr. Bush had been misquoted and had never used the word 'privatization' to describe his policy..." is an accurate and informative summary of what Bush plans really are.
This is no secret. It's what people were saying when Bush was talking cryptically about his "ownership society" back at the Convention.
