I'm not a big fan of the new guy but I'll change my opinion 180 degrees if Obama moves forward with real entitlement reform. WashPost: "Obama pledges entitlement reform"
President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to shape a new Social Security and Medicare "bargain" with the American people, saying that the nation's long-term economic recovery cannot be attained unless the government finally gets control over its most costly entitlement programs.Of course, we've heard this song before:
"What we have done is kicked this can down the road. We are now at the end of the road and are not in a position to kick it any further," he said. "We have to signal seriousness in this by making sure some of the hard decisions are made under my watch, not someone else's."
Obama is not the first incoming president to make bold declarations about overhauling the nation's retirement and health-care systems. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush made similar vows."Yes we can"? Or "kick that can"? We'll see.
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Another "What Bias" moment: When a Republican tries to fix something he is accused of "gutting Social Security," when a Democrat tries the same thing we are told he's "overhauling it."
Yes, how upset and hurt the GOP policymakers of the last 30 years would be, if they heard people unfairly malign their deep and abiding love for Social Security.
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