[Some analysts think next year's Congressional elections already pushed reform to the 2003 agenda.] I don't actually think Sept. 11 will have any long-term impact on the Social Security debate, ... 2002 is an election year, so I always thought Congress would take up the issue in 2003. |
Every event needs a sacrificial lamb. They'll be serving portions of me, I understand, for lunch. |
Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. |
I don't think either one of them is really telling the whole story. What Bush is saying is that if you eat your spinach, you'll be able to have some ice cream for dessert. Al Gore, on the other hand, just wants to pretend that the spinach doesn't exist. |
I think you'll see the beginning of a renewed push. |
Individual accounts offset some of the benefit reduction you'd otherwise see. |
That surplus is being spent on everything the government does from rutabaga research to the war in Iraq. If Congress is going to spend like a drunken sailor, take the bottle away from them. |
The future of research is interdisciplinary, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee, ... This building gives us the space and the flexibility to go where the imagination of our faculty takes us. |
The Social Security surplus is always being spent. Now it's going to defense and rebuilding rather than paying down debt. From a psychological standpoint, spending it may even be good for privatization. Opponents might use that surplus as a hedge, saying we've got money in a lock-box and don't need to privatize. |
This is an exhausted administration. It's going to be very hard for [them] to come out with a big new initiative. |
This is the first time in the country's history where simply by virtue of living somewhere you are mandated to purchase a product. |
Whether it will help remains to be seen. We have to be careful not to generalize before we have enough information. |
You can't use private accounts to make up the Social Security shortfall; the hole is just too deep. |
You have no legal right to those benefits at all. There is nothing in the world that is less guaranteed than a politician's promise. |