So many progressive organizations out there with time on their hands. Which one will put together the online database listing where every representative and senator stands on Social Security?
Who supports the program, who wants to phase it out, and who’s keeping their cards close to their vest, trying to figure which way the wind will blow?
Only a bit of money and only a bit of staff resources — and to such good effect. Who will step up to the plate?
On a related note, what about all those Republican members of congress who told voters only two years ago that they were dead-set against ‘privatization’?
There was New Hampshire’s Jeb Bradley in a debate in 2002: “We have to protect and preserve Social Security for today’s recipients and tomorrow’s recipients. I’m clearly not in favor of privatizing it, or raising the retirement age or reducing benefits.”
Or Jon Porter out in Nevada from 2002. He told voters he was “adamantly opposed” to a private accounts plan. “The more I look and the more I research, the more convinced I am that there should be one focus: to preserve and protect Social Security.”
And Chip Pickering down in Mississippi? Here’s how the AP summed up his stance in ’02: “Pickering recently dropped his support for President Bush’s plan to allow Americans to invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, but he said that plan is not privatization. He said he never supported privatization.”
It’d be interesting to see if there have been any changes of heart.
