Democrats fear Social Security reform will work

The Daily News (Newburyport, Massachusetts) has an article, Democrats fear Social Security reform will work, that basically states what I already think abut the Democrat's actual motives. Here are some teasers:

Reid says Bush's proposal to let younger workers — and only those who want to — divert some of the Social Security taxes they pay into their own private investment accounts would turn that program from a guaranteed retirement safety net into a "guaranteed gamble."

I guess Reid ought to know about gambling, given that he represents Las Vegas ...

and

so far, seems to be the best scare tactic the Dems can muster. Bush wants to allow you to control some of your own money. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I swear, the Democrats should just switch mascots — replace the donkey with the Cowardly Lion. It's not just that they want to help the helpless. They want to force all of us to think we're helpless

and here's the best quote:

I think the greatest fear Dems have is not that elders will return to poverty, but that more of them actually might be able to lift themselves out of it over their working lifetimes. Democrats need poor people who think only government will save them, and they need them to stay poor.

That is not some right-wing insult. Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey recalls Moynihan telling him that the reason Democrats are so afraid of Social Security reform is because it might make people wealthy, "and they worry that wealth will turn Democrats into Republicans."

That, I suspect, is what scares Harry Reid more than anything.