Yoshie wrote: > How do we fight it? That's fundamentally a political question, for > which progressive economists' technical expertise and moral appeals > can be of service but do not suffice. Unless we understand the > politics of it and are prepared to fight the efforts to have us > accept the least bad bill, we are doomed to see partial privatization. --------------------------------- It is fundamentally a political question. There have to be be some organizations or coalitions which are up and running on this issue in the US. Which ones? Didn't Kerry proclaim he would never privatize SS? He may have been dissembling, but rank-and-file Democrats and others will take him at his word. This would seem to afford an opening for the left to organize such people, invoking Kerry as authority. What is the position of AARP - as spineless as ever over Bush's drug plan? There was a lot of internal dissension over that surrender, so there must be a large constituency which would be prepared to put the leadership's feet to the fire over SS.
BTW, are you actually sensing anxiety being expressed about this by your friends and relatives or among the people you work with or live beside? There's been a lot of media attention to this issue since Bush's press conference, and they would be the best barometer of whether there is going to be a fight. MG
