The Mystifying Moynihan (cry baby alert)

The Washington Post ^ | 9/8/2001 | Robert M. Ball

[Utah Girl]

When we worked together in the late 1970s and early '80s -- he as a United States senator, I as a veteran commissioner of Social Security -- he was the most effective defender of the Social Security program in Congress. It was our teamwork on the Greenspan Commission in 1983 that, in his words, "literally saved Social Security for the decades that followed."

[Utah Girl]

The system is broke Mr Ball. Something needs to be done. Moynihan recognizes that.

[calebcar]

perplexes me

Like disheartens,disappoints,saddens these are softsmear/whine protest words. If Lieberman is on the Sunday talk shows this week just listen five minutes for more examples.

It's nice to see them try to eat their own(Moynahan, Condit)with these phrases.

[razorback-bert]

problem via legislation requiring Social Security to begin sending annual statements telling all workers over 25 what they have paid in and what they can expect to receive in benefits.

Huh? I have never received one.

[Utah Girl]

I just received mine last week for the first time.

[RJayneJ]

Quote of the Day who_would_fardels_bear

[AntiScumbag]

going to be entitled to

one is "entitled" only to whatever current law happens to be, the law can be changed at any time (and has changed frequently in the past)

little sense of proprietorship

this is as it should be, one can't and shouldn't feel very proprietary about an "entitlement" that pays exactly $255 if one dies before benefit eligibility

the annual statements they send out (of which i've gotten three) are fraudulent to the extent that they encourage people to think that the amounts they've paid are somehow "theirs" when in fact no such thing is true

the current "lock box" nonsense is an outright fraud

social security has always been nothing but a general fund pay-as-you-go welfare program disguised as a pension plan and should be fully privatized