In an interesting and telling LA Times article, the right wingnuts admit that what they really want to do is dismantle Social Security. As in the quote from Grover Norquist, Bubble Boy confidant and founder of the evil and corrupt Americans for Tax Reform:
Norquist acknowledged that for some conservative activists, including himself, the ultimate objective was to eventually replace traditional Social Security benefits with a system of individually owned accounts.
"If the left views the purpose of the New Deal as making older people dependent on politicians, then this will in fact undo the New Deal," Norquist said. "But if you view the New Deal as trying to give older people independence and dignity in retirement, then the president's reform provides that."
Sounds warm and fuzzy except that it is the most cynical spin on the truth. The New Deal (as it was started and exists even today) guarantees older people's dignity and independence through a pension system. Bush and the Right Wing's desire is to eliminate those guarantees and potentially eradicate older people's dignity and independence. And why not? They're old and useless anyway, right?
Don't think for a moment that fixing Social Security (which is not broken) is on the agenda. The agenda is to completely dismantle and destroy Social Security.
Bush has been pushing a privatization program for Social Security since his ill-fated run for congress in 1978. You know, before the made up crisis - and as this article discusses, it's more ideology than economics.