Editorial: Partisan jabs won’t help Social Security

Tuesday, April 27, 1999 | 11:44 a.m.

Sunday talk show aired another episode of the partisan blame game that plays frequently in our nation's capital. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., on ABC's "This Week" chastised President Clinton, contending the president would be at fault if Social Security reform doesn't pass. "I don't see it happening this year, because I don't believe the president will honestly address it," Lott said.

But Lott knows better. The president already has made concessions on allowing Social Security to be invested in the stock market. Lott should stop pointing fingers and start searching for common ground on this critical issue. The time to address Social Security reform is now -- not when it is at a crisis stage. It's a shame that Lott has yet to grasp that the Social Security blame game, which has been playing for years, is getting stale for Americans.

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