Lieberman Can Still Think For Himself

ThinkProgress is upset, because it appears that Joe Lieberman can still think for himself on the issue of Social Security.

In 1998 he realized I think in the end that individual control of part of the retirement/Social Security funds has to happen

In 2000 he backtracked and said For a while I was drilling into this idea of privatization of Social Security. It requires taking as much as a trillion dollars out of the Social Security fund. The independent analysts have said that would put the fund out of money in 2023, or if it’s not out of money, benefits will have to be cut by over 50%. That’s just not worth doing.

In 2005 he started thinking for himself again Some of these centrists, such as Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., have been meeting with Republican colleagues to discuss whether there is a middle ground.