The WAR ON TERRORISM will heat up again, and again, and the somewhat privatization of SS, is on the back burner, and probably will stay there; for a while.
Market investiments, though much more common today, than at any other time in or nation's history, are still something confusing to most people. They refuse to be informed / inform themselves ( I have NO idea why ) about these matters ; even though many have investments. Even semi-privatization od SS ( which I wholeheartedly endorse, BTW ) will fai miserably, unless the public finally decides to act like responsible ADULTS, and so some study, on the matter.
Maybe. I think it's interesting that Enron was the first thing to displace the war on front pages since September 11. Maybe it's a coincidence, and people were just ready. But maybe not...