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Noam Scheiber underestimates the cynicism and mendacy of the Bush administration's Social Security plans. You really can never go wrong on this front. Policy in all areas will be maximally cynical and maximally mendacious.
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Comments
One of the key benefits of a faith-based government is that reason isn't only not required, it isn't even allowed.
Faith, by definition, is belief without reason. If a reason for something, say a foreign policy decision, suddenly presents itself, faith isn't required and the some thing is instantly earthbound and not terribly sexy (in a born again sexy kinda way).
Yep. We can expect 4 glorious years of w's gut instinct and various things on the march to all sorts of noble places.
You just gotta believe.
Posted by: epoh | Nov 28, 2004 8:37:33 PM
Faith aside, I just want to know when the 'big' PR effort is going to start kickin' in with respect to privatizing SS. When are we going to see the topic all over the news, Bush giving one big speech after another on it, and the talking heads yapping away everyday about how great it's all gonna be?
Posted by: KC | Nov 28, 2004 8:56:38 PM
Zizka once wrote "the pathological need of the moderates to split the difference just means that the Republicans can get whatever they want by asking for twice as much". I think that's what we're looking at here. The proposal as desribed by Scheiber & Weissman is barking mad, but you should expect the Republicans to at the last moment "moderate" their proposals into one that is not quite insane, merely very, very, unwise. That has been the pattern of the first tax cut, the second tax cut, the Iraq war, the third tax cut, and now the Social Security proposals.
OTOH, they really do believe their bullshit, and they're feeling their oats at the moment, so maybe they really will jump off the cliff this time.
And take us with them.
Posted by: roublen vesseau | Nov 28, 2004 9:04:48 PM
I recommend:
First, buy a lot of stock in a few stock brokerage corporations.
Second, get thyself into a stock broker training program immediately.
Third, increase your 401k contributions to the maximum allowed.
Like it or not, Social Security will be at least partially privatized within the next 6 months, offering payback to the stock brokerages that supported Bush, and jacking up the value of the portfolios of all of his other contributers. Bush seems never to neglect paying back his political debts.
Posted by: Vaughn Hopkins | Nov 28, 2004 10:51:27 PM
"maximally cynical and maximally mendacious"
That is quite possibly the most accurate and economical description of this administration's "policy" making (and I use the term ironically) apparatus that I have ever heard.
Bravo!
Posted by: Windhorse | Nov 29, 2004 12:17:27 PM
