Ask a freeper about social security benefits and if they should be reduced or eliminated.
That should remove any doubt that “conservatives” in America are socialists too.
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I for one am min favor of a “privatized” SS system in which the citizen OWNS his account and can, within certain parameters determine the investment of his account assets.
If explained properly I believe a majority of Americans would agree to this.
Agreed. I've been paying into SS for 25 years, and I have absolutely no expectation it will be there for me when I retire.
I would rather the government allow us to opt-out of SS. This would completely eliminate any possible use of it for those of us who make this decision. That would free up a substantial amount of money for me to invest elsewhere, and the returns would be far and away better than what I would ever expect from SS.
Bush presented this maybe 15 years ago during his time in office and it was shot down like a Zero over Pearl Harbor.
I agree with you though.
“B-b-b-but someone didnt make enough to live like they want in old age and it’s all due to systemic gender-trans-racial-gay-lesbian-whositwhatsit-ism”
Then we are right back to socialism....
He stumped for two years or more to get the nation and congress behind privatization, but failed.
The bad news is that he failed. The good news is also that he failed, because if he had succeeded then Social Security would have been privatized right before the collapse of the housing market.
This would have ended up decimating peoples' private Social Security accounts and would have led to the decimation of the Republican Party.