IT'S ABOUT DESTROYING, NOT SAVING

Josh Marshall on the leaked Social Security memos: (Read it all)

This entire debate is about ideology -- between people who believe in the benefits Social Security has brought America in the last three-quarters of a century and those who think it was a bad idea from the start. There is an honest debate to have on this point, a values debate. Only, the White House understands that the belief that Social Security was always a bad program isn't widely shared by Americans. So they have to wrap their effort in a package of lies, harnessing Americans' desire to save Social Security in their own effort to destroy it.

The Bush administration is all about destruction, not creation, unless it's creation of still more wealth for the already-rich.