How’s that cockamamie idea of privatizing Social Security going over these days? Not well, I bet
13 comments September 18th, 2008
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McCain and Palin on Social Security
Add comment September 14th, 2008
Sarah Palin DEMONSTRATED the other day that she doesn’t quite understand how Social Security works.
But then, John McCain isn’t too sharp on the subject, either:
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Don’t mess with my Social Security, McCain!
9 comments September 7th, 2008
I love being a geezer. It gives me license to tell kids to get the hell out of my yard, and I get to shout at clouds and do other goofy stuff.
It also gives me the right to tell John McCain and those other Republicans to forget their dagnabbed SCHEMES for privatizing Social Security.
You see, senator, there’s a good reason why this is called “the third rail of American politics”
9 comments July 14th, 2008
Has the man learned NOTHING from Bush’s experience?
Incredible! Nay, beyond incredible!
Add comment July 9th, 2008
One of our presidential candidates (guess which one) seems to have just now DISCOVERED how the Social Security System was designed to work, and he says it’s “an absolute disgrace.”
I don’t think even George W. Bush is this obtuse.
POSTSCRIPT: Here’s MORE on this matter.
UPDATE: Still MORE. This story seems to be sprouting legs. And rightly so. This was no slip of the tongue. It was a display of astonishing ignorance. He said it was “straight talk” to tell the American public something that most of us sentient folks have known all along.
UPDATE III: Josh Marshall has a good wrap-up here in which Mr. Straight Talk’s own words are used to block his potential escape routes:
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Dude says he wants to privatize Social Security — then denies saying so!
2 comments June 14th, 2008
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Chicken Littles have it wrong: Social Security System actually is getting stronger
12 comments March 26th, 2008
THIS GUY, an economist, says the latest report from the Social Security Trustees shows that the system’s “actuarial balance has been improving rather than worsening.”
But, of course, we still can expect some Republicans to argue that the system needs a radical overhaul or perhaps abandonment.
John McCain once even SAID that “we stop paying Social Security” in the year 2042, if something isn’t done to save the system. But that’s not true.
Social Security myths die hard
3 comments March 5th, 2008
A regular reader of Applesauce opined in a comment the other day that the Social Security system is an “unsustainable Ponzi scheme.”
In response to such nonsense, I refer HERE to a piece by economist Paul Krugman published four years ago today (coincidentally). The points made therein are still valid.