Bait and Social Security

Here's what worries me. The GOP bill that features private accounts will contain some clause that say voting no means you hate Jesus, or will offer free popsicles to the country when the temperature tops 90 and make the Democrats look like bad guys for actually standing up for principle and taking down privatization.

Because this bill the House Republicans are about to offer up sounds like the same pile in a different colored suit. And it would seem to be political suicide to offer a bill with private accounts but no long term solution for any projected problems Social Security may have. Democrats should have a field day if the GOP suggests investing the surplus in T-Bills they once deemed worthless. And if the GOP plan still allows the government to spend the surplus, then what's the point? There's no net effect at all, is there?

I'd be leery in the next few weeks. Leery, but resolute.