Reply #16: The Kos article is a novelty article.

[Eric J in MN]

I wrote a more serious article yesterday:

Bush Wants to Do to Social Security What He Did to Iraq

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Social Security fund won't be short on money until 2052.

Bush is fearmongering when he says we need radical changes to Social Security, such as diverting money from the Social Security fund to Wall St. That diversion would add $2 trillion to the national debt in the first decade of his plan, if implemented (which I hope it never will be).

Two letters in the Dec. 18 Minneapolis Star Tribune criticize Bush's extreme Social Security agenda.

MORE AT MOVELEFT.COM:
http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2004_12_17_bush_wants_to_do_to_social_securiy_what_he_did_to_iraq.asp