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But it's hard to take seriously the Democrats who say that Mr. Bush should switch focus from Social Security to the much bigger problem of Medicare: If they aren't willing to play a constructive role on the supposedly "minor" challenge of Social Security, why should anyone believe that they would behave constructively if the administration wanted to fix Medicare?

"behave constructively"?

There is no social security crisis and if the President is going to lie and use two contradictory economic projections to frame the problem then there is no opportunity for constructive dialogue. This Presnit is going to have to stop gaming the debate if he wants to negotiate. Why? You can't negotiate with a liar. Only a fool thinks it is constructive to bargain at any cost.

WA Post thinks this is a political problem; it's not. It's our retirement and our life is at stake, not an abstract debate. Who the fuck wants to pretend there's a "middle ground" when negotiating with a liar? The man wants to dismantle Social security. Are democrat's obligated to give him half of what he wants? Fuck no. Retirement is a fundamental problem for most of the middle class and so who gives a shit if the democrats don't play by the Post's "give'em half rule"? We'd blast the democrats if they tried.

Bush's lame "plan" fails to solve any fiscal problem when it the economic forecast used to disparage the current social security forecast is applied to Bush's vauge "plan". The current system shows a future partial-deficit decades from now and does better than his plan.

Meanwhile, the Presnit and knucklehead pundits insist that Social Security is at risk because the government is borrowing trust fund money with paper I.O.Us locked away in a file cabinet - also knon as - US government Treasury Notes. Amazing.

We'll negotiate when they stop lying and making absurd inferences about US solvency. The President is obligated by the Constitution to support the US treasury and it's borrowing. He's lying or worse - he's breaking the law and advocating a policy of insolvency.