'selflessness' killing social security reform?

lefty bloggers are off-and-running with a victory lap prompted by a washington post social security reform poll.

strangely though talking points memo (basically echoed at washington monthly) are heartened by the fact that the "public is not quite as selfish as the conservatives thought", evidenced by a 69 year-old gentleman proclaiming worries about his children and grandchildren.

lemme get this straight...a member of the 'great society'...which guaranteed itself hefty massively unfunded healthcare benefits via medicaid and medicare... while creating an enormous national deficit...which will all have to be (re)paid by their children and grandchildren...is selfless?

i thought giving yourself a bunch of pricy things, expecting someone else to pick up the tab is pretty much the definition of selfishness.

oh i forgot, people hate the bankruptcy bill too.

¶ - nitish @ 5:54 PM