Social Security reform - from an AP story, there are two issues that really bother me: (apologies ahead of time for the long quote)
1. The Bush administration is blatanly talking about how "the aim now is to sell Americans on the idea that there is an immediate problem" and that legislative nitty-gritty will come "after this intense public relations phase". So the question is: how can they talk about the fact that this is going to be a sell job, and still remain credible to some people? To me, admitting it's a sell job brings up the idea that maybe what's being sold isn't necessarily true.
2. And then this quote from the same article:
"The president portrayed his plan as both good for the Social Security system and as a crucial step in building ownership for more Americans. But he did not mention that investing in stocks and bonds means workers with private accounts risk seeing their assets shrink, nor did he talk about lower benefits or the enormous transition costs of the accounts, estimated in the trillions of dollars.
He did acknowledge that the private accounts "don't fix the system.""
What? He's saying that it's good for the system, good for the people, but maybe you'll risk losing your benefits. Plus, it doesn't fix the system. I'm really at a loss to explain this. I mean, what's he saying: "There's a crisis, we need to fix it, and here's my plan that's absolutely necessary, and this plan will not fix the system."