Reason and Radical

What Kind of Society Should America Be?

That's really what the whole Social Security thing is about. Krugman:

The argument over Social Security privatization isn't about rival views on how to secure the program's future - even the administration admits that private accounts would do nothing to help the system's finances. It's a debate about what kind of society America should be.
And it's a debate Republicans appear to be losing, because the public doesn't share their view that it's a good idea to expose middle-class families, whose lives have become steadily riskier over the past few decades, to even more risk. As soon as voters started to realize that private accounts would replace traditional Social Security benefits, not add to them, support for privatization collapsed.

Read him every Tuesday and Friday -- well worth registering.

posted by Leimodnu @ 4:18 PM