Apparently, there is no plan, OK? You got that? No goddamned plan! Where in hell did you get the idea that there was a plan?!?! Oh ... maybe here:
President Bush, in remarks on March 27 [2001] at Western Michigan University, clearly understands the values basis to Social Security reform:
"My plan reforms Social Security so that every worker can be a saver and an owner...
Oh. That plan.
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Maybe his Twiggness has been invoking the wrong Roosevelt on the SS thing...
Oh, wait, Teddy is the guy who busted the trusts and instituted the National Parks and Wildlife Reserves.
And wasn't he one of those....whaddya call 'em?
Right, got it now.
Republicans?
I read somewhere that this whole there's a plan / there's no plan thing is another way for Bush to try to take credit and avoid responsibility simultaneously.
Obviously, it's a scam, but now Bush is really sounding like a bad con-man.
"Look, just gimme the money, don't worry about the details!"
I would put it another way. I think it's a way for the Repubs to be out there on the hustings, promoting SS privatization day in and day out and yet, if the Democrats try to argue against it, the response is, "Why are they criticizing a plan that doesn't even exist? Boy, talk about obsessive."
They get the best of both worlds -- pretty much total control of the agenda, and a way to squelch dissent by making it seem petty and premature.
I may blog on this shortly.
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