7. The scrutiny Social Security is getting is bad news for the disabled
and elderly poor getting SSI. Their completely Federalized benefit program rode beneath the radar 10 or 20 years ago, during the outcry over "welfare queens". Now Bush and Rove seem about to rouse the faithful with a whole new set of scapegoats: "WHAT? My FICA taxes are going for WELFARE?!" "Social Security Reform" holds the same potential political bonanza for the far right as "Welfare Reform" did under Reagan and Daddy Bush. Welfare has been reformed to death, and I'm afraid SSI is stuck on the tracks ahead of the same freight train.
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