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To: LindyBill who wrote (116477)	5/26/2005 9:01:24 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793739

Actually, SS is social insurance, not welfare. To consider it welfare is to misunderstand it's intent. If it were transformed into welfare, it would suffer the fate of all welfare programs; the absence of a powerful constituency would lead to its demise. The Bush folk with the help of the further right (I don't really think it's fair to characterize every conservative with such retrograde views) wish to do away with social insurance. Very bad social policy. It would lead to large increases in poverty among the elderly. At a time when company pensions are deeply threatened, the stability SS represents is essential. As far as the political implications, I suspect the Dems can only win on this one. Unless, as is so often the case these days, they think they have to act like a governing party rather than an oppositional one.