Huh?
I couldn't have put it any better than Michael Moore's website:
"So George W. Bush wants to privatize Social Security because it is the only way to save Social Security from its long-term insolvency. He spends months wandering around the country trying to convince rooms full of carefully chosen already convinced people that his plan is a good one. No one buys his story. He says there is no lockbox and that there never was. He says that people should invest their Social Security money. The idea is an all-around failure but he keeps pushing it. GOP congressmen, facing mid-term elections next year, start to take heat from their constituents. The voters tell the congressmen to give up on this stupid idea. The congressmen, eventually, tell George to give up on this stupid idea. George won't give up (he's a hard worker) and so the congressmen cave. They come up with a compromise. The compromise allows for privatization of Social Security but does nothing to address Social Security's long-term insolvency. We're not sure what these GOP folks are thinking, but it is entertaining to watch."
"So George W. Bush wants to privatize Social Security because it is the only way to save Social Security from its long-term insolvency. He spends months wandering around the country trying to convince rooms full of carefully chosen already convinced people that his plan is a good one. No one buys his story. He says there is no lockbox and that there never was. He says that people should invest their Social Security money. The idea is an all-around failure but he keeps pushing it. GOP congressmen, facing mid-term elections next year, start to take heat from their constituents. The voters tell the congressmen to give up on this stupid idea. The congressmen, eventually, tell George to give up on this stupid idea. George won't give up (he's a hard worker) and so the congressmen cave. They come up with a compromise. The compromise allows for privatization of Social Security but does nothing to address Social Security's long-term insolvency. We're not sure what these GOP folks are thinking, but it is entertaining to watch."
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