In Tuesday's online poll, you ask whether I think President Bush's plan for Social Security would work. Judged by the aims for which Social Security was established, it is unlikely to work. However, together with this administration's other economic policies, it is likely to increase poverty in our country, thus bidding down the price of labor, decreasing the economic - hence social - power of most citizens, allowing the rich to continue feeling "useful" when giving alms to those worse off.
This result would be counted a success by at least some of our present-day "conservatives."
John Kloswick
MSU librarian
