GOP wants to “fix” Social Security Republicans are still fuming at President Biden’s calling them out in his State of the Union Address for wanting to unravel Social Security and Medicare. They insist he stop spreading lies about what they clearly want to do. Social Security privatization is another “zombie idea” that should have died long ago, yet continues shambling along, New York Times economist Paul Krugman told Ari Berman Monday on his MSNBC show, “The Beat.” Yet there is former Vice President Mike Pence resurrecting an idea floated in 2005 by then-President George Bush (and soundly defeated in the court of public opinion). Bush meant to turn a portion of people’s Social Security over to Wall Street (and more of it later). “You have to be really naive not to know that what [President Joe] Biden said is true,” Krugman said. “Rick Scott, former chair of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee was foolish enough to actually put it on paper that we’re [the GOP] going to sunset Social Security and Medicare within five years. But everyone knows that he’s actually speaking for what a lot of Republicans would like to do, what Republicans have been trying to do for 40 years.” You have to pretend that history never happened to claim otherwise, Krugman continued. The economy exists “for people’s lives,” Krugman insisted. The programs’ impact on the economy is probably neutral. But the bottom line is that “Medicare, Social Security, and increasingly now Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act,…