David Brooks is very pessimistic. I hope he's wrong about SS reform. We must have it, but I think the Democrats are hoping their position on this issue will help them in the 2006 elections. I hope they're wrong, too.
No matter who is in power, reform is essential to the health of the nation. I wish we had more leaders who would see it this way...and more people who understood the crisis ahead of us is real, not imaginary.
"If Social Security reform fails - and obviously I hope this obit becomes obsolete - it will be many years before any sort of big entitlement reform will come up again. The parties will keep playing chicken, and we will soon find ourselves catastrophically buried under our own debt.
Oh, yes, there's one more group to be criticized: the American voters. For the past 30 years, Americans have wanted high entitlement spending and low taxes. From the looks of things today, they - or more precisely their children - are going to live with the consequences."
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