Barbara's Lament

"I'm here because I'm worried about our 17 grandchildren, and so is my husband. They will get no Social Security."

-Former First Lady Barbara Bush on tour with her boy George making a last ditch effort to pitch the President’s Social Security reform, popular among the wealthiest of taxpayers but not many others.

Associated Press’s Jennifer Loven follows with this observation:

"After all, the grandchildren in the wealthy Bush family are unlikely to depend on Social Security in their sunset years and the monthly Social Security check collected by Mrs. Bush's husband, the former President Bush, is undoubtedly only a minuscule portion of their retirement income."