[Buckeye McFrog]

The solution is privatization. As usual government screwed up this government program.

You're not wrong, but try actually doing it. W dipped his little toe in the water on that one and got decapitated for his troubles.

[dfwgator]

W dipped his little toe in the water on that one and got decapitated for his troubles.

And after that, W pretty much checked out for the rest of his term, and went through the motions.

[1Old Pro]

W dipped his little toe in the water on that one and got decapitated for his troubles.

Yes he did and he did a really poor job of it and the Dems as you recall sent their demonstrators to all the Congressional town halls and the media ran with it. The only way forward is to make small incremental changes annually. Elected officials tend not to fix problems because most often the fix isn't popular and the media gins up trouble like they typically do.