> snitsnat wrote:
>
>> what an excellent way to get rid of it altogether. stigmatize it. In
>> 5-10 years, bye-bye to it all. Which is what they want, innit?
>
> Yes, of course that's what they want - or, more precisely, they want
> it to be a minimal welfare program for the very poor. But their
> strategy for getting there seems really fucked. Who in Congress can
> afford to vote for something like that?
>
> Doug
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I was just slighty astounded by the directness of the headline.
Although we are very much a country with a vast division in the distribution of weath and power, the average American would not like to admit that division exists at all, and Knight-Ridder just puts it *right out there*.
In some way, which I can't quite quantify, that's a good thing.
In regard to the two tiers, and unions...(and I almost gave up on unions when it became a compromise position for many of them) the SS issue is much more closely followed by a tremendously larger part of the American population. It can't get buried too deeply on page C-8 (or the back of the sports section).
Some things aren't quite as "scale-able" as others in the way of social engineering.
Leigh