Am I forgetting something or did Bush not ask for suggestions on how to save social security when he first announced this plan? I think it was during the debates. W. said ss is broke, we've got to fix it. Here's one idea on how to fix it. I would love to hear anybody else's idea if they've got one. We've just got to do something.
Did I miss something? Did the Dems propose an alternate plan? If not, they totally stepped in a pile last night on that one since they just (on the record) wasted a year and a half on this....meanwhile the clock is ticking. So, now they're going to go back and do what the President asked them to do in 2004, which (incidentally) is what we pay them good money to do.
"So, now they're going to go back and do what the President asked them to do in 2004,..."
I don't think they are going to go back and do anything about ss. They hate GWB so much they'll happily allow it to become unsolvable by waiting indefinitely to do anything about it.
These fine "champions of the little people" - who, instead of ss of course, have a separate and very generous pension protecting their future.