According to a recent newswire article, the White House announced “it has no immediate plans to submit its … detailed proposal to Congress for overhauling Social Security.”
There is a simple reason the White House will not be submitting a Social Security plan to Congress or anyone else. There isn’t one and there never was an intention of having one. The goal is not to fix a government program that has worked well for 70 years and needs a little fine-tuning to work for another 70 years. What these guys have in mind is the destruction of a program they have loathed since its inception.
Just as the invasion of Iraq started long before September 2001, in the minds of the neo-cons, then morphed through a series of rationales, this new project is a goal in search of an explanation. Now that “private” accounts are not working, we can expect the rationale to change soon.
Coming up with policy ideas, developing them, thinking through all the details, doing what needs to be done to make them law – that’s hard work. Our MBA president is a big idea kind of guy. He just throws his big idea into play and waits for what he wants to be delivered. The president doesn’t know how to play the instruments. He doesn’t even know the melody or lyrics. He just calls the tune and expects everyone to dance.
Gene Wisemiller
Edmonds
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