Social Security Privatization & Seeds of Doubt

by: JRB

Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 11:24:32 AM EST

This is a hollow campaign tactic the Republicans are using around the country. Who else voted for the Senate ammendment? Republicans McCain, Hagel, Stevens, Lugar, Martinez, Graham, Specter, Chafee, and Voinovich. So what's this all about?

It's a part of a larger Republican strategy to privatize Social Security.

President Bush has announced his intentions, but he has some very hardened opinions to overcome. Americans don't trust him to fix Social Security. They think his party is ill-intentioned. So what do they do?

They plant the seeds of doubt early. They will ask, "You trust the Democrats on Social Security?! You know their plan is to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants? Don't you remember it from the campaign?"

And that's how they get their foot in the door.