The reason personal accounts are not sponsored by Democrats is the mere fact they will not control nor have jurisdiction over people’s lives as they do with Social Security.
The same fact holds true to Government workers on all levels (Federal, State and Local). They can collect taxes from the private sector and pay the public sector with ever increasing rates.
This gives the Government leverage over party loyalty and union affiliation as they extort money from the productive to pay for the non-working and the State workers who produce nothing in the way of GDP.
The question comes to necessity, are soldiers, cops, firemen and teachers important? Yes they are, but should we pay for them for life...maybe cops, fire and military as they put their lives on the line...but run-of-the-mill paper pushers in the courthouse or DMV?
I would like all public employees, except cops, prison guards and military, to have 401K’s they contribute to, and based on the FY profit or loss, their employee match is in lockstep with the overall private sector.
Unions killed the auto industry, the airlines and now are killing the government.
Time for reform. Now.
“Time for reform. Now.”
We have a chance to start, on election day this November — vote out the Dems.
If we don’t stop this communist, dictatorial government train now, there won’t be anything left of our freedoms by 2012.