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I realize the need to blame everything on Bush, but this ins't the case. In his situation, he loses either way. The system is going down, hard. How many more times are we going to try and saddle him with the responsibility of a problem he inherited. Why aren't we bitching about Clinton's "balancing" of the books that used up a good portion of SS funds. Why aren't we bitching about the fact that Congress thinks SS guarantees them a blank check as long as they "promise" to pay SS back.
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Bush's tax cuts came, in large part from the SS surplus. Bush deliberately gutted the program (as many politicians have done before him, I admit), but he gets as much blame as anyone. Reagan restructured SS to continue working as it was for another hundred years. It can be done. Reagan did it by raising the tax limit on it and raising the retirement age a few years (which is reasonable as we are living longer)
You don't shoot your horse in the leg and then go complain about it.