The Nation - Selected Editorial

[Carrol Cox]

On Social Security: Cockburn predicted (shortly before or after the 96
election) that Clinton's next great achievement after destroying public
aid (and probably in the middle run shortening millions of lives) would
be to destroy Social Security. So far the prediction looks good.

Not too many weeks ago the WSJ in an editorial predicted that by opening
the issue of Social Security Clinton had unleashed a project he could
not control. Their explicit assumption was that Clinton did *not* want
to destroy Social Security, but that his actions would achieve that
goal. This minuet between the WSJ and the Clinton Administration, like
the Dukakis campaign of 88, could provide a field day for conspiracy
theorists. Clinton does the dirty work; the WSJ provides the cover by
accusing him of being a liberal.

Carrol