Expand Social Security

Not crazy talk anymore. Amen to that.  It's nice to see that despite the Pete Petersons of the world spending hundreds of millions of dollars (for the noble purpose of stealing trillions in retirement funds from the rest of us), not everyone will just roll over and let them win.

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But the days when right-wing Democrats like Pozen and the operatives of Third Way are anointed by the prestige media to represent the left-most acceptable opinion about Social Security appear to be over. Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of enacting the relatively modest increases in Social Security benefits called for in the Harkin bill and endorsed by Warren — to say nothing of expanding Social Security much more, in order to compensate for inadequate pensions and private saving, as my colleagues and I have proposed. But the discussion has changed from a debate about how much to cut Social Security to one about whether to cut Social Security or expand it. That is real progress.