See, Bush thinks that since he never reads any of the stuff he signs, no one else will read any of it either.
From Newsweek
If you read enough numbers, you never know what you'll find. Take President Bush and private Social Security accounts.Maybe Bush thought the Iraq war authorization gave him the power to privatize Social Security without consulting Congress.
Last year, even though Bush talked endlessly about the supposed joys of private accounts, he never proposed a specific plan to Congress and never put privatization costs in the budget. But this year, with no fanfare whatsoever, Bush stuck a big Social Security privatization plan in the federal budget proposal, which he sent to Congress on Monday.
His plan would let people set up private accounts starting in 2010 and would divert more than $700 billion of Social Security tax revenues to pay for them over the first seven years.
If this comes as a surprise to you, have no fear. You're not alone. Bush didn't pitch private Social Security accounts in his State of the Union Message last week.
