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A Moment of Clarity In Social Security Debate

In the past week conservatives have floated several contradictory Social Security reform proposals, making it difficult to discern their true intentions.

Luckily, there have been a few moments of clarity in the debate that cut through the rhetorical clutter and get to the core goal of the conservative’s fight: the abolishment of the principle of shared responsibility and sacrifice that Social Security embodies.

The most recent example came yesterday when Republican Rep. Jack Kingston (GA) explicitly stated the Republican strategy – get any Social Security bill through the House and Senate and then add private accounts in a conference committee:

“Anything they can get passed out of the Senate we should consider a major victory,” Mr. Kingston said, adding that if the Senate can pass any sort of Social Security bill — even without personal accounts — the House would “meet them in conference committee with personal accounts.”

This reaffirms what the White House’s endgame is as told to the New York Times last month:

“…they will seek to lure Democrats into negotiations on the program’s solvency and prepare for an endgame in which Mr. Bush will make an all-out push to convince the country that individual investment accounts will reduce the pain of benefit cuts or tax increases…”