The 'deal' reached by Congress this month in an attempt by grownups in the House to keep the children from shooting us all in the collective foot, promised to spare programs like Social Security and Medicare from utter anhiliation. Even the newly-elected, self-appointed, scrooge-like guardians of the purse claimed they were really trying to save Social Security. Do they now value and embrace the most successful social program in the world or is this just another route to waging war on social services?
While most rational people understand that Social Security is prohibited from
