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To: rightwingintelligentsia
i learned something new about newt last night

his ‘solution’ to social security is to offer a ‘privatized’ option

if you opt to go that route and your investments turn out well, you win

if you opt to go that route and you lose all the money, you will still be paid ‘benefits’ from social security

the taxpayers win if you win - the taxpayers lose if you lose - sounds like he wants us taxpayers to take all the risk out of gambling with retirement investments

he must have learned that government backing thing at fannie and freddie

36 posted on 01/17/2012 9:41:20 AM PST by sloop (don't touch my junk)
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To: sloop

It certainly wasn’t the “let private citizens be responsible for their retirement and get government out of the way” response I would expect. Everything the goobermint touches turns to crap and So-so security costs us ten times as much as if we privatized the whole thing.


42 posted on 01/17/2012 9:47:03 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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