[Txsleuth]

DANG, DANG, DANG....WHAT A GUY..

I love this President!!!

[ExcursionGuy84]

YIppee-Yi-KEE-YI YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!

Just like with Ambassador John Bolton: appointment by recession, right under the radar!!!

[Reagan Man]

Talk is cheap. Bush will have to settle for a similiar deal to what Reagan got. A SS reform commission like the Greenspan Commission of the early 1980`s. hey, the Fed Chief IS out of a job, so maybe he'll be interested. LOL

Social security remains the third rail of American politics. The American people like SS and with the new Bush PDP, the people like Medicare even more. Big government Republicans pushing a cradle to grave nanny-state mentality.

Isn't Euro-socialism great. ~sarc off~

[Mr_Peter]

Don't be ridiculous. He can't change the law with a budget item. Bush is more of a moron than I thought.

[BenLurkin]

"Bush also wants to change the way Social Security benefits are calculated for most people by adopting so-called progressive indexing. Lower-income people would continue to have their Social Security benefits tied to wages, but the benefits paid to higher-paid people would be tied to inflation.

"Wages have typically risen 1.1 percent a year more than inflation, so over time, that disparity would give lower-paid and higher-paid people essentially the same benefit. However, higher-paid workers would be paying substantially more into the system than lower-paid people would.

"This means that although progressive indexing is an attractive idea from a social-justice point of view, it would reduce Social Security's political support by making it seem more like welfare than an earned benefit."