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June 07, 2005
Compromise, and Move On
Fox News is sick of President Bush's tone deaf approach to Social Security reform too. As I have argued repeatedly on this site, the president has done an admirable job educating the public on the need to reform Social Security. But the public is not in favor of his proposed reforms. This is somewhat akin to convincing a woman to end a relationship that has no future and then being upset that she doesn't start dating you. There are two separate issues at work, and part of being a successful president is the ability to recognize the strength of opposing arguments. The Democrats are not paying much of a political price for their refusal to consider private accounts for the simple reason that the public is not in favor of private accounts. Politics is messy and it requires that even the strongest compromise sometimes. The "educating the public" approach to securing support for private accounts is a horse that been beaten until not a scrap of flesh remains. The time has come to address solvency; we can seek to tackle private accounts at a later date.
Posted by Audi Partem Alteram at June 7, 2005 09:27 AM
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