From a distance, Washington's latest undertaking to save Social Security looks
like all of the other budgetary brouhahas that periodically send the Beltway's
denizens into a tizzy. There are the earnest policy wonks brandishing ominous-looking
charts, the president and elder statesmen in Congress speaking in somber tones
about the need for bipartisan cooperation. And so, one might guess, in all likelihood
the result will be the same as it has… more
