The case of the missing crisis

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/usa.shtml#17506

It is has been dubbed "the fake crisis" by its critics, and there are many. Since re-election, the Bush administration has been aggressively arguing that the social security system, which pays cheques to America's elderly, is facing insolvency.

President George Bush insists the system is in need of dramatic reform if it is to avoid going broke. At the heart of his solution is partial privatisation; allowing individuals to divert tax dollars into personal accounts that would be invested in the stock market and carry the attendant risks and rewards.

It would be the most radical reform of social security since the New Deal came into being 70 years ago and, as one commentator has noted, do more to dismantle the programme than any of Mr Bush's Republican predecessors managed to achieve.

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[Vincardog]

1. Fake 'CRISIS' absolutely wrong fix Let aWoL put his retirement in ENRON

stock tell him to leave my retirement INSURANCE alone

[pinerow]

2. Same tactic used in the run-up to the Iraq war...

we cannot underestmate the effectiveness of this strategy...!!

[rodeodance]

3. you are right--but seems people are a bit leary this time around