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Originally posted by Gattigap
I'm not sure that many people really take that position.
People generally agree that the problem is a big one, albeit one that is generational in duration, and where the big hit occurs decades hence. It's a good idea to fix it sooner, rather than later, and preferably now.
Think of it as a half-completed train trestle across a river. The train is approaching, and people have dithered for years over whether to increase taxes to finish the trestle, or keep funds as they are and use cheaper materials. The Bush Administration's Big Idea is akin to eschewing both of those solutions for getting the train across the river but instead building a gigantic fucking catapult.
This idea, of course, is good news of messianic proportions to the local catapult industry, but those who object this "plan" shouldn't necessarily be described as wanting only the status quo.
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I think the opposition is purely ideological - the DEMs don't want to see an undoing of one of the pillars of the New Deal.
It seems to me that there is a lot of room to strike a deal here. Would you object to some combination of raising the minimum age and allowing self directed investment accounts for a
portion of an individual' SS account?
