This is exactly the message that the Democratic party need to get out in front of the American people. Here are two recent diaries I have done on Social Security:

Social Security Smackdown Du Jour

and more importantly

Social Security is Solvent Forever.

The most important point that is not getting discussed is that the entire debate has been centered around Projection I of the trustee's report instead of Projection II (scroll down to Figure II.D7.--Long-Range OASDI Trust Fund Ratios Under Alternative Assumptions)

Projection I as illustrated by Figure II.D7 has been the most historically accurate projection because of the very conservative estimates the Social Security actuaries use for economic growth. That is why There is no crisis.

I hope you have also read Dean Baker's book, The Phony Crisis. Instead of having Peter Orszag out on the talk circuit (I heard him on NPR a couple of nights ago) we should have Dean Baker out front on this issue. He published his book in 1999, so there is no way that he can be accused of reacting to Bush's stealth plan to destroy Social Security.

The entire debate should be limited to the range in between Peter Orszag and Dean Baker instead of the range between Peter Orszag and the CATO institute.

Keep fighting the good fight and I look forward to seeing you on the talking bonehead shows. Let us know, because I stopped watching them last year. The only news shows I regularly watch are The News Hour and Lou Dobbs. Lou Dobbs would be the best show to go on. He is willing to discuss the more serious problem of the unfunded liability of Medicare and the more serious problem of Bush's budget deficit and our balooning current account deficit.

Social Security is an ideological distraction from our very real and very immediate economic problems. I hope you don't let the DLC blow this one. I have been very critical of them and I hope they will make me look like a humongous fool for my criticism. I am very concerned that they have not been outspoken and firm that there is no Social Security "crisis" and we should be focusing on real problems instead of distractions. We can "save" Social Security after Bush and his free market utopians are safely out of office.

I would also like you to consider asking any of the talking boneheads How can you possibly be that stupid? when they ask an incredibly stupid question. It would also work well for just about anything that any Republican says or asks about Social Security.

One more thing. Please read Boadicea's diary Republicans Can Not Be Trusted.

Any my short summary comment:

Thanks for being part of the dialogue and I look forward to your future participation and contribution to a rational national dialogue instead of the pathetic excuse for debate that the media sock puppets put on the screen.

Check out what I just put up in another diary since my last post. When anybody mentions the unfunded liability of Social Security, you point to the National Debt chart that you always carry with you and demonstrate that President Clinton was the most successful deficit cutter in history. If they try to give Newt and the GOPers credit, ask them who signed the legislation that made it happen. Asked them who sent budget plans to capitol hill in the 90's.

Then ask them to name a single thing Bush has actually done to cut the deficit or even a single thing he has proposed to cut the deficit that has not been rejected by his own party. We cut our deficit because President Clinton was serious about cutting our deficit. You can make them look like the fools that they are on fiscal responsibility.

Never, ever, ever say fiscal conservatism. That is what they call an oxymoron and if anybody disagrees, feel free to say "How can you possibly be such a moron?" Show them the facts and do not retreat.

It's time to stop our big spending, big government President in his tracks. If Bush and the Republican party can't control their big spending corrupt corporate pork barrel spending, then the Democratic party has a civic duty and fiscal responsibility to shut down Congress.

Sorry Sam Donaldson. Sorry David Broder. We did everything we could to stop their reckless big spending corporate pork barrel spending and there was just no other way. We have a responsibility to our children to stop President Bush and our big spending corrupt Republican Congress.

Now that President Bush and a Republican Congress are in power, they still blame Democrats and Clinton and even Carter for their problems and their mistakes?

What's up with that? And why haven't Democrats started calling them on it? It's time for Bush and his corrupt Republican Congress to stop blaming Democrats and Hollywood and Spongebob Squarepants and Buster Rabbit and video games and the tooth fairy for all of the problems that they are responsible for.

And it's way past time for Democrats to start saying it loud and proud and clear. It's time for Democrats to step up to the plate and say we are Proud to be Democrats.

It's time to say that President Bush is A coward and a liar for the things he has said about Social Security and his failure to accept responsibility and his failure to put his stealth "plan" down in writing so we could have a legitimate discussion.

It's time for Harry Reid to start acting like The Baddest Man in D.C. and it's time to start showing the American people that the Democratic party is the party of Bad Ass Democrats when it comes to defending the American people from corruption and greed and a fiscal train wreck known as President George W. Bush.