Wojtek writes:
--- On Wed, 5/13/09, farmelantj at juno.com <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
> If SS is ever privatized, that will
> happen under a Democratic administration,
> not a Republican one. The unhappy experience
> of Dubya shows that no Republican president
> can ever hope to pull this off. However,
> Bill Clinton's success in abolishing AFDC
> and passing NAFTA and GATT, neither of which
> were very popular with the Democratic base,
> suggests that a Democratic president could
> conceivably succeed in such an endeavor.
> In fact Bill Clinton was ready to present
> his own reforms of SS, but he then got
> caught up in Monicagate.
[WS:] And only Nixon could go to China ..... I am very well aware of this well established in the US politics pattern, and that is why I finds news like that very scary. =================================== Wholesale "privatization", which even a Democrat could not pull off, isn't on the agenda, though erosion of the benefit by raising the retirement age and the contribution rate surely is - probably in exchange for the Republicans acquiescing in some measure of health care reform. I expect that's how it'll be sold to the DP base and the wider American public.