Walter In Denver

I think this is just Radly dreaming. I don't know, but I don't expect GWB to try and do any of this. I would be happy if he could just privatize social security, and if he would eliminate even one federal department or large organization (even if he just combines something like the ATF with tthe FBI), but I hold little hope for any of it. I expect more spending, more government, more restrictions on our freedoms.

As a Republican who voted for the guy, I expect Social Security reform--and I hope it will be meaningful. I expect an attempt to revise the tax code, but I wonder if the attempt will succeed. And I hope for streamlining some government services, but I doubt it will really get much traction.

With as much noise as was made about Social Security reform before the election, it has to be an important part of Bush's vision for the future. Revising the tax code is nearly as important, but meaningful change might be even harder to achieve. The rest is pretty much in the land of wishful thinking in my mind.

One thing that neither of the candidates would have done for me, and that Bush is unlikely to do for me, is to advance free trade zones more aggressively.

But, in the end, I still hope that baby steps are taken in the right direction.

The only form of SS pritization/reform I support is cancelling SS. Stop taking the money out of my checks and I'll invest it (privately), most likely in the form of beer and DVDs.

The "privatization" that most people are talking about looks like a disaster to me. I'm going to get double-taxed, once to pay for current SS recipients, once to pay for my own "private" account, and then the system will probably collapse anyway under the weight of the lawsuits from those that made bad investments.

What the Hell is pritization?