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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

I have yet to see the Bush proposal. If you have knowledge of where one can 
read it, please post the url.

> > tvoivozhd---here are a few.

I have read many similar articles. At none of those urls is enumerated a 
proposal by the White House; they are mostly reactions of various people to 
campaign statements made by Bush, dating back to when he was still a 
governor. This comes from the third url you offered, dated last month:

"The administration hasn't settled on any particular Social Security reform 
plan," Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the White House's Office of 
Management and Budget, said in an e-mail message in response to questions 
about overhauling the system.

Social Security reform has been talked about for decades. Since he first 
ran for president, Bush has lobbed many S.S. reform shots across the bow of 
the U.S.S. Fear and has had the benefit of thousands of reactions ranging 
from obeisance to outrage by columnists, pundits, think tanks and political 
operatives. There have also been thoughtful reactions by interest groups, 
most appropriately perhaps by AARP, whose constituency largely depends on 
S.S. and which is still smarting from the negative reaction of its members 
to endorsement of the Medicare bill just passed.

There have been lots of generalities. But I have yet to see a specific 
proposal that can be addressed and evaluated. As usual, the devil is in the 
details. And we do not yet have details.