The Al Gore lockbox on Social Security is looking good these days.

[Eric J in MN]

Al Gore said he wanted to keep Social Security money separate from the rest of the budget, to not allow money raised for Social Security to be spent on other things. Gore called this putting Social Security into a "lockbox."

While his "lockbox" remark was ridiculed on Saturday Night Live, it's looking good now that Greenspan is saying that we should use Social Security to pay for Bush's tax-cuts for the rich.

On Friday, on Bill Maher's tv show, Ralph Nader indicated that Social Security is fine as long as it is kept separate. We are raising enough in Social Security to pay for the Baby Boomers to retire.

We just can't let Bush take that money.