Interesting post about the politics of Social Security reform (through Instapundit).

TCS: Tech Central Station - The Strange Death That No One Cares About

As recently as two years ago, New Democrats declared that: 'We believe in reforming democracy and government to strip away top-down bureaucracy and give citizens and communities the power to solve their own problems. We must be willing to reform old programs in order to preserve our oldest values.' But today they have become just another force for reaction, defenders of those same 'old programs' and the very 'top-down' status quo they once professed to believe in reforming.