Salon Article

on the Bush plot to destroy Social Security (free one-day pass):

"Are the Republicans stupid [is the sky blue]? Is the White House advocating policies that have been shown to be both useless and reckless simply because Republicans have no weapon in their economic arsenal other than ever larger tax cuts? For many on the left, it's tempting to think so, but that's probably not the case. There may be method to their madness: Since his campaign, Bush has been calling for a 'restructuring' of Medicare and Social Security, and his idea of restructuring rests heavily on the private sector."

In other words, it's an attempted bank robbery by robber barons.

More:

"Bush wants to allow people to divert some of the money they pay to Social Security taxes into 'private accounts' invested in the stock market. In the days of the market boom, this didn't seem like a terrible idea--at the time, remember, betting your retirement on the fortunes of a high-flying firm like Enron was an eminently sensible thing to do. Well, we know how that story ended. Now, after the Wall Street scandals, voters may be more inclined to keep their money in old-fashioned, government-run Social Security. And so, pro-privatization Republicans find themselves with a problem: How do you get people to think that Enron is a better investment than Social Security? The answer is obvious: You make the government's finances worse than Enron's."

And on and on. They just don't give a damn about public opinion. They just don't give a damn about truth. The government is there for them to loot, and every single one of these people who call themselves Republicans and advocate what amounts to white collar crime should be serving jail time, not serving the voters.