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To: LindyBill who wrote (90669)	12/14/2004 11:11:09 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793718

The left is working on the right words. Important Framing Notes By Matthew Yglesias As Mark Kleiman says it just won't do to allow the term "social security reform" to go uncontested in the discourse as a denotation of whatever it is Bush winds up proposing. He likes "Social Insecurity plan." Fair enough. My column today used another framing device that I think is good and other people should take up -- "forced savings," not "private accounts." It's the same thing in the real world, of course, but a "private account" sounds like something I'd like, while "forced savings" sounds pretty dodgy. Other suggestions for other elements of this debate? I think we need a suitably dismissive set of terms for various aspects of the long-term economic forecasts.