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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

An exit strategy and a good idea for SS at last

amazing...! i hadn't heard this proposal (stopping "the borrowing of operating surplus within Social Security to mask the enormous size of the operating deficits for the rest of the hemorrhaging budget"), but if it's the only action taken on social security this year, that would be just fine by me...

(thomas oliphant in the boston globe)
Republicans who have floundered in their scramble to promote an exit strategy for Iraq are honing skills on an exit strategy for an equally touchy topic -- President Bush's desire to turn Social Security upside down.

With next year's elections looming on the horizon, there does not appear to be a desire to accomplish anything that either deals with the vital program's long-range health or follows Bush's longstanding yearning to partially privatize it.

Instead, the effort is seeking to position electioneering Republicans as being in favor of something that polls and other opinion research indicate is relatively popular. [...] That would be the stealing, or embezzling, or (for euphemism lovers) the borrowing of operating surplus within Social Security to mask the enormous size of the operating deficits for the rest of the hemorrhaging budget.

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