By now it is pretty obvious that there is some sort of "shakeup" happening at the White House. First, Josh Bolten gets moved to Chief of Staff and now Rob Portman goes to OMB.
Before any other appointments are made to ruin my prescience, let me make an observation.
What do each of these men have in common? Social Security reform.
Some have said that moving Bolten to COS is a signal that the President wants to tackle domestic issues again, and the appointment of Portman (who is in favor of Personal Accounts) only underscores that prediction. It also doesn't hurt that Portman is well-liked on both sides of the isle.
We're going to have another shot at Social Security reform soon.
We *the people* have no shot at getting anything but screwed by either the socialist insecurity status quo or fascist neoconservative "PRA" 's. The best we can hope for is that nothing happens 'till the democrats pick up house seats in November '06 and we get lots of gridlock.
SS Equity Funds EQUAL Big Government Corruption!
S4 Sucks and Gives Change!
Posted by Noid on April 18th 09:01:26 PM
Any solution taken to solve the problems facing Social Security will not be small and painless. Minor tax increases will not go well, nor will benefit cuts, nor will a combination of the two. The best option is to act now, because the longer we wait to reform the system, the more problems we will have in the future.
Posted by Jonathan Moore on April 19th 02:46:27 PM
And the worst option is to act rashly and end up implementing something even worse like SS Equity Funds. We should be focusing on transitioning out of the entire system entirely. The current misleadership's spending is making any transition impossible.
SS Equity Funds EQUAL Big Government Corruption!
S4 Sucks and Gives Change!
