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To: DavesM who wrote (16357)	5/10/2005 12:55:52 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Respond to of 361341

The real issue with SS is normative, not economic. Someone has to pay, but whom? This boils down to what kind of society we want America to be - not a question just for economists - a question for all Americans. If we were just discussing economics, then SS would be off the table right now. We would address the General Fund deficit first. It is a larger and more immediate problem. That is part of the problem; Bush is coming at this with the view that social insurance is bad and he wants to reduce it as much as possible. But he is approaching it as an economic issue, and on the economics he is fighting a losing battle.