The booing was in reference to the fact that the President's statement that SS will be "bankrupt in 2018" is simply not true.
It's not that Democrats think SS does not need reforming, but that they find the reasons being given for an imminent crisis to be nothing but FUD, as well as believing that private accounts will make the problem worse, not better.
It's really Iraq all over again - misstate the reasons that we need to take action, and then take action that makes the situation worse, instead of better.
Oh yeah, and...
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I give this thread a half-life of no more than an hour.
