Reply #7: Does the DLC want seniors off now? Help me here. Trying to understand.

[madfloridian]

http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=253094&kaid=131&subid=192

DLC | New Dem Daily | January 3, 2005
New Year, Old Problems

SNIP..."With the world appropriately focused on the horrifying tragedy still unfolding in South Asia, the Congress of the United States prepares to begin a new session tomorrow. But there's nothing new at all about the challenges facing our country, or, so far, the agenda being offered by the Bush administration and its partisan allies in the House and Senate.

As we all anxiously await the appointed day for elections in Iraq, it's not at all clear the president's new national security team has a plan B for what to do if the voting, the results, or the aftermath do not follow the best-case scenario the administration has been confidently predicting for much of the last year.

Here at home, the president was forced last month to reassure jittery international financial markets that he would at some point in the near future deal with the increasingly dire fiscal situation of the federal government. Yet his (Bush) political team is gearing up for a full-court, multimedia campaign to promote a partial privatization scheme for Social Security that will make that fiscal situation far worse, in no small part because Bush is taking the pain-free approach of promising future retirees they can stay in the old system with full benefits even as a portion of the payroll tax that finances it is diverted into private accounts.

SO, I am asking, what is the DLC answer to this problem? Sounds like they are criticizing Bush for not getting the seniors off the old program fast enough.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.