but next could be Medicare,medicaid and pension system...
SS is a live wire issue and bush will shrill up his rhetoric as Dems duck for cover on other issues while they fight to save SS..
Divide and conquer..repeat..
Its classic rover bait and switch..keep em guessin and when in doubt start a war..Iran, N. Korea
But SS is about the hottest issue possible..repukes arrogance continues to soar higher and higher...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05037/453093.stm"As a result, Medicaid also is expected to be targeted for cuts when President Bush delivers his budget to Congress this week. One clue came last week, when Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt proposed scaling back access to nursing home care and reducing drug repayments to pharmacies, measures he said could reduce the program's budget by nearly $60 billion over the next decade.
But the president's sense of urgency has puzzled many members of Congress, advocacy groups and scholars, who note that other safety net programs for older Americans face far larger and more urgent financial problems -- especially Medicare, Medicaid and, to a lesser extent, the quasi-governmental corporation that insures private pensions?