when will Social Security / Medicare be privatized / dismantled?

[dead0man]

The GOP will abolish the filibuster as soon as they gain a majority in the Senate. Count on it.

Lief's insanity is starting to reach opebo levels.

[dead0man]

Before the end of the decade.

So, how would it happen (and what would it entail? Care to provide a scenario?

Dems lose the House and Senate in 2010; a Republican defeats Obama in 2012, winning even larger majorities in both houses in the process; and Social Security and Medicare are promptly dismantled (or they'll do the two-step, "means-testing reform then dismantling/privatizing a few years later" approach).

There is a little thing in the Senate called the filibuster that would make that almost impossible even if those events did happen. 

The GOP will abolish the filibuster as soon as they gain a majority in the Senate. Count on it.

That's not going to happen.  Do you think Republicans want to risk Democrats passing single payer health insurance when they get a Senate majority?

After seeing the amount of damage they were able to do with the filibuster to a party that had a 60-seat majority, the GOP will surely abolish it or dramatically weaken it if they regain a Senate majority. The Republicans have proven themselves to be hypocrites on the issue before, and I have no doubt that they would do so again. Plus the idea of the Democratic Party ever finding 50 votes for single-payer health insurance is laughably unrealistic.

I support the filibuster being abolished.