Re: [Marxism] Paul Krugman: Obama recovery plan inadequate

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Lause wrote:
> Talk aside, does anybody really think that Obama is going to launch a
> frontal assault on Social Security?   It seems clear that his game is
> to keep everything together by not burning bridges anywhere...and then
> burning the smallest bridges.  The Social Security question is enough
> to get hundreds of thousands of walkers converging on Washington.  The
> very prospect of this was enough to scare off Reagan, the Bushes and
> Clinton.  Obama and his advisers understand that this issue is
> radioactive.

That's what they said about welfare. And there would have been a huge 
social explosion if Reagan or Bush '41 went on the offensive against it. 
Instead it took a Democrat to eliminate a key New Deal reform.

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