They (the American voter) never will accept cuts, at least not to their own benefits. We see in Obama's healthcare plan that those benefits will expand. In fact neither party will successfully cut benefits.
A joke....this commission is political cover. A basic tool in any politicians bag of magic tricks.
His assertion (i.e., G.O.P.) and idiotic too boot. The WSJ is correct, the program was billed as a binding agreement, a sacred trust, between government and taxpayers. If the politicians want to fairly recover tax dollars raise the tax rate on retirement income, for all types of retirement income, not just Social Security.
What Krugman can't say: these programs have become the noose around the economies neck. It's easy to blame one party or the other when the cost of these entitlements is slowly strangling the economy.
When's he going to write a damning piece on the public sector and demonize their political patrons?