We are the poorer for the privatization and deregulation we have seen and those who come after us will be the poorer for the privatization and deregulation yet to to be seen.

I remembered telling a much valued poster here, a stalwart contributor if ever there was one, that the Democrats were coming after Social Security.

He said politely that I might be right but that he didn't believe it.

Well, I had plenty of evidence, or I wouldn't have said it.

I'll also note that when the Democrats held the Presidency, and both Houses of Congress, they made no attempt to use the regular committee process, that had been used to amend The Social Security Act from the start of the Social Security Act, to align what was then, and is now, a surplus, with what they knew then, and know now, will soon be a deficit.

They did nothing if you don't count forming a meaningless advisory council that was privately funded by a billionaire with a lifelong agenda of privatizing Social Security.

They behaved in a derilect and disgraceful way.

Today, a faction of Democrats is trying to argue with a straight face that the Democrats lost to Trump because their policy positions weren't "MAGA" enough and is trying to fix the problem as they see it.

I forgot who said you never die in the world in which you were born but there's truth in it.

No, I do not want the TSA to be privatized.