"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.
That still makes them look stupid.
That would mean that they inflicted social security on us and had everybody pay in all this time, and then they killed it. And they'll be screwing over the Baby Boomers (a huge voting block).
The Gen X'ers aren't planning on ss being there. The boomers were counting on it. Not to be ugly, but 30 years down the road when push comes to shove, the X'ers are gonna be the ones in political office making decisions. We're not gonna let anyone starve, but how sympathetic do you think we're gonna be when the boomer Dems REFUSED to address the problem when it was repeatedly brought to their attention. This is AFTER the Dems created the problem in the first place by bleeding ss dry by using the money the boomers put in all this time that should have been waiting for them now to pay for all of their failed social programs.
Nope....not gonna go well for Dems. Top to bottom, ss is a democrat failure and when a Republican president offered to help them fix their program, they're refusing.