So what will it take to defeat *'s insane SS plan?

[Digit]

Can it be done?

[tritsofme]

1. 41 votes in the Senate

Done and done.

[SoCalifer]

2. Filibuster

41 Senators to back a Filibuster. Senator Harry Reid has 44 Senators to do just that.

[whistle]

3. All of the above......

[izzie]

4. Can any one find out about Bush's Tx, plan?

He moved a retirement plan in Tx schools to his Friends. How did that work out? I understand he made it some how so people could not find out how it works. How, I do not know, but he does that with lots of stuff.

[EVDebs]

5. A rational debate showing the concentration of wealth in the USA

along with a reading of Chapter 8 of David Cay Johnston's book Perfectly Legal (on how the wealthiest have their social security subsidized via the $90,000 cap etc.). Follow that up with

Wealth in the US at http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=2050

"Here is a summary of the statistics for the distribution of wealth in the US as
of 1998, the most recent information available that has been fully analyzed:

% of US Population % of Wealth Owned
==========================================================
Top 1% 38.1%
Top 96-99% 21.3%
Top 90-95% 11.5%
Top 80-89% 12.5%
Top 60-79% 11.9%
General 40-59% 4.5%
Bottom 40% 0.2% "

(be sure to scroll down the whole article)

And a reading of "Wealth and Democracy" by Kevin Phillips, which shows what happens to empires when wealth gets too concentrated.