Think of Social Security if Bush got his way back in 05.

[Condem]

I'd be willing to bet that the SSA is safe for a long time. The ONLY upside to this whole deal.

[whyverne]

1. Hell, that was part of the plan.

They think that the middle class doesn't deserve the money it has/had.

[Recursion]

2. That was the point

You think it's a coincidence that the proposed bailout roughly equals what they would have gotten out of SSA in the past few years? They wanted to buy themselves a few more years. I forget which DUer said it, but everything that's happening was supposed to happen, just a bit later.

[avaistheone1]

3. I believe you are correct on that one.

Thank God we were not tricked out of it then, but I still don't think Wall Street is done with us.

[Condem]

4. Damn, we are a stupid country.

We'll never learn.