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Brit Hume, deceptive hack
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Originally posted by bilmore
As has your side, for decades, whenever selling that crisis helps your initiatives. If Bush simply drops this idea now, he's way out ahead - every Dem leader is now on record clearly claiming there's no SS problem. We can dine out on that for another twenty years.
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I know that you don't support what Bush is trying to do, so there's no need to pretend that I support what "every Dem leader" has said on the subject for "decades." I think it would be great if we could tweak SS to ensure that it will be solvent for decades to come. For example, (1) raise the retirement age somewhat, (2) raise the cap on earnings subject to SS somewhat, and (3) establish formulas based on economic data for the next many years so that (1) and (2) are automatically rejiggered if the economy does somewhat better or worse than expected.
If Bush did this, no one could really argue, and he would take away the Dems' refrain that the GOP is trying to end Social Security. But he'd rather kill the system than save it.
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