Opportunity lost for Gore's lock box  To the Editor:  Anyone
remember Al Gore’s “lock box” for Social Security? Probably not,
knowing the memory hole of the American public, which largely
believes that President Barack Obama initiated the bailout of
the Wall Street crony capitalists, when it was actually
President George W. Bush.  Gore, better known as “Ozone Man” by
Fox News adherents, had decided, before he won the popular vote
in the 2000 presidential election, that income from the self-
funding Social Security program needed to be protected from the
politicians. He believed that this money should not be available
to be borrowed against to fund the everyday doings of national
government.  But this policy was never implemented because an
activist U.S. Supreme Court gave the nation — tada — George
Bush, who wanted to privatize Social Security, instead of Gore.
One current attempt to bring fiscal sanity back to government is
Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Supposedly everythin