Paul Krugman writes:

The people who hustled America into a tax cut to eliminate an imaginary budget surplus and a war to eliminate imaginary weapons are now trying another bum's rush. If they succeed, we will do nothing about the real fiscal threat and will instead dismantle Social Security, a program that is in much better financial shape than the rest of the federal government.

I just downloaded Krugman's "Confusions about Social Security." I love Krugman's writing. He is a Professor of Economics and International Affaris at Princeton and got his PhD at MIT in 1977.

We are going to have a hard Republican campaign against social security pushed down our throats. They estimate that they are going to spend $50 to $100 million on propaganda -- and that's not even counting all the time Fox News is going to spend on this.

Molly Ivans has a new opinion piece out about this today. She says:

And for robustly ignoring reality, you can't hardly beat spending $50 million to $100 million on a propaganda campaign to convince America there's something seriously wrong with Social Security while you ignore the collapse of the American health care system. It is common to begin all discussions of American health care with a complete lie, uttered in this example by President Bush: "We live in a great country that has got the best health care system in the world, and we need to keep it that way."