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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If the Democrats held the White House and Congress, I would hope that they would try to do something about Medicare and the budget deficits, which are more pressing problems than SS.
This White House has absolutely zero interest in reaching a bipartisan compromise to save and better fund Social Security. What you say is a little bit like saying that Charlie Brown ought to take another run at the football, because Lucy might let him kick it this time.
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This is the common refrain these days - If Bush is going to do X, he should do it here first. We saw it with Iraq ("Are we going to invade every country with human rights violations") and we are now seeing it with SS.
I agree with most of BRC's posts (surprise surprise) - the DEMs won't come up with a plan to save SS because they absolutely do not want Bush/GOP to get credit for "fixing" it. So instead they equate fixing SS with PRAs, meaning that if you are against PRAs you must be against SS reform. It's a smart PR campaign.
