Harper's Magazine: THE TRILLION-DOLLAR HUSTLE, p. 1 of 5

Thomas Frank had a very good essay on why the GOP wants to privatize Social Security which is worth reading in consideration of Bush's victory on tax cuts today.

Our WW2 veteran's understood the idea that we are all in this together.

"Freedom from Want" was how Franklin Roosevelt described it. And for a good piece of the American public during World War II, Social Security-understood in the broadest sense-was among the country's noblest war aims. For them the connection between the common struggle of war and the common struggle of everyday life was self-evident. In 1944, Roosevelt proposed an "Economic Bill of Rights" for the postwar era; echoes of the idea could be heard in the G.I. Bill of Rights, the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and President Truman's plan for a national health program. ...