Reply #6: Is he prepared to tell us that his predecessors have lied about SS for years?

[tularetom]

If not, he is going to take the hit for however he proposes to fuck with it.

I think he really believes the program could be in trouble and he needs to take drastic action to rescue it. He probably also believes the American public is mature enough to accept the truth when he presents it to them so eloquently. (He's wrong about this of course - we're nothing if not immature)

But if he does this he is in effect, telling us that we've been fed a line of bullshit about SS for many years. There's no two ways about it - either SS is healthy and he doesn't need to mess with it OR it's in trouble and a long line of presidents, both Democratic and republican, have lied to us.

If he doesn't point fingers he'll get portrayed by the republicans and their media stooges as the guy who fucked up Social Security. And that is probably the one thing that can guarantee that he won't serve a second term.