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Friday, January 28, 2005

The Newest Deal

The Bushies' war on Franklin Roosevelt
"Why are today's Republicans so hell-bent on changing Social Security? Clearly they're not driven by concern over government deficits. After all, they've engineered a taxing and spending regime that intentionally created record deficits.....Maybe it's because Social Security is an opportunity to refight-and perhaps win-a series of arguments the Republicans lost badly 70 years ago. To put it another way, it's a chance to knock down Franklin Roosevelt, finally."

And some other thoughts on the assult on Social Security from Paul Krugrman in The New York Times:"Social Security privatization really is like tax cuts, or the Iraq war: the administration keeps on coming up with new rationales, but the plan remains the same. President Bush's claim that we must privatize Social Security to avert an imminent crisis has evidently fallen flat. So now he's playing the race card...."
|| JM, 8:24 PM

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