Thursday, January 06, 2005
Revving up the machine
The success of President Bush’s push to remake Social Security depends on convincing the public that the system is “heading for an iceberg,” according to a White House strategy note that makes the case for cutting benefits promised for the future.
Calling the effort “one of the most important conservative undertakings of modern times,” Peter Wehner, the deputy to White House political director Karl Rove, says in the e-mail message that a battle over Social Security is winnable for the first time in six decades and could transform the political landscape.
But the administration must “establish an important premise: the current system is heading toward an iceberg,” Wehner’s e-mail said...
...“We need to establish in the public mind a key fiscal fact: right now we are on an unsustainable course,” the e-mail said. “That reality needs to be seared into the public consciousness; it is the precondition to authentic reform.”
Sounds like another catastrophic success the Bush administration tried to sell us awhile back.
posted by chris at 5:01 PM
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