I've talked about John Kerry and Social Security before: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040301/005132.html> and <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040301/005154.html>.
Now, I'll let the Democrats speak for themselves -- here's what they got on their webpage about "Issue Contrast: Social Security and Medicare":
<blockquote>* Last, John Kerry and John Edwards are committed to genuine bipartisan reform of Social Security. They know that go-it-alone strategies and commissions with predetermined agendas don't work. We cannot reform Social Security and Medicare without real bipartisanship and responsibility.
<http://www.democrats.org/ssm/contrast.html></blockquote>
When you see the terms "bipartisan," "reform," and "social security" combined into a proposal, whose details are apparently too terrifying to disclose to voters before the election day, you know what the working class are up against.
The only hope is that transition costs to full privatization of social security may be too high to win even elite consensus quickly and that combining the costly occupation and deadly counter-insurgency war in Iraq with too radical a "reform" of social security may be a little too much for even American workers. _Some_ kind of "bipartisan reform" is coming, though, for sure. -- Yoshie
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