[upsdriver]

It helps explain the profound silence on the program. Now to see if it has helped rein in Medicare costs by keeping seniors healthier longer.

Imagine if Bush could have gotten his Social Security reforms(partial privatization) through congress.

[Republican Wildcat]

Exactly. The Democrats would not go along with that even with the proposal to lift the cap on the SS taxes to eliminate their “loss of revenue” concern. The fact of the matter is that they did not want people acting independently from the government - revenues were an irrelevancy.