The Bush Agenda is all about repealing the New Deal. And why not?
Well-born critics of FDR called him a "traitor to his class." I suspect they were wrong, that in saving American capitalism, Roosevelt saved their class and most of its privileges. (Like the right to go to Yale because your daddy did.)
But they were quite accurate in indentifying ours as a class society. President Bush is a card-carrying member of that upper class. And no rebel. So he wages war on its behalf.
Thus far, he's brilliantly moved the burden of taxation from the rich and the corporate to the middle-class. Also, he's removed most regulatory restraints on corporations. And, with the recent Medicare bill, begun the subversion of Medicare.
Bush will, if re-elected, move on to "reform" Social Security.
Social Security must change, of course; currently it's based on 1930s - 40s demographics. But how?
Bush's "reform" is "privatization." To privatize a federal program is to kill it.
Why would conservatives want that?
They don't. This White House is radical, fueled by free market fanaticism and financed by corporate dollars.
You see the logic. "Privatized" Social Security means we invest billions of dollars in Wall Street - its brokerages, banks, member corporations.
If we are to defend Social Security, we must take responsibility and offer our own fixes.
That's quite feasible. Social Security can be saved. Sometime soon, I will talk about how. Suffice it to say now that Social Security will be the next target of the passionately ignorant ideologues and corporate apologists who own this White House and lead both houses of the Congress.
In case you thought the next Presidential and Congressional elections were unimportant.....