The New York Times Catches On (Finally)

On January 26th I found and reported that the idea of Social Security going bust and therefore private accounts are necessary was not a new idea for George W. Bush, but one he first advanced in his 1978 House campaign where he predicted that Social Security would by bankrupt by 1988 and the only solution was private accounts. Well, finally the Paper of Record has caught up to this fact. Good for them, but next time they need to more closely scrutinize "new" plans to see whether they are in fact new or whether they are just recycled ideas that the Right, Neocons and Bush have been pushing for a while. It was a similar overlooking of the Project for a New American Century's policy paper from the late 90s in the run-up for war in Iraq that, while not showing the flimsyness of the rationale for invading , could have provided a hint that Iraq was not in the neocons' sights because of 9/11 or WMD (neither which were even true), but were part of an ideological agenda to remake the world along their principles of U.S. hegemony and pre-emptive war.