Republican Talking Heads Claim No Republican Wants To Privatize Social Security

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Republican Talking Heads Claim No Republican Wants To Privatize Social Security

In his most recent weekly radio address, President Obama noted that “some Republican leaders in Congress don’t seem to have learned any lessons from the past few years. They’re pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall.” The Democratic National Committee also released an ad pointing to the GOP’s desire to privatize the 75 year old program.

A few Republican talking heads have taken exception to this portrayal, and have claimed that no Republicans actually want to privatize the system in the way Democrats describe:

DANA PERINO: I don’t know of a single Republican who actually wants to do what the Democratic ad just said. It’s sad for the Democrats…they still can only run on fear of something that somebody is not suggesting.

ED ROLLINS: The President’s out there saying ‘Republicans are going to take away your Social Security.’ There’s no Republican, basically, standing up and saying that, and we haven’t for a very long time.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: How stupid does he think Americans are? Not only will Barack Obama not allow Social Security to be privatized, Republicans will not allow Social Security to be privatized.

Contrary to their assertions, Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) much ballyhooed Roadmap for America’s Future calls for the creation of private Social Security accounts, akin to those proposed by President Bush in 2005. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) has explicitly advocated “reviving President George W. Bush’s failed plan to partially privatize Social Security.”

Reps. Dan Lungren (R-CA), Jack Kingston (R-GA), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) have all touted personal accounts, while Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has expressed a desire to “wean everybody off” Social Security entirely. Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) even questioned the constitutionality of the program.

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[cliffordu]

1. No - but I'll bet everyone wants to cut the fuck out of benefits

particularly for the disabled and will raise the retirement age.

And continue to fund military adventures around the globe with "loans" from the SS fund......

[arbusto_baboso]

2. Really? Didn't Dumbya want to privatize SS?

Don't a lot of rethugs still talk about it when pandering to their loony base? I call bullshit.

[KansDem]

3. Sure, they want to "personalize" it...whatever the hell that means...

Sharron Angle on Social Security

Sharron Angle: I don't want to privatize Social Security, I want to personalize it

[KansDem]

4. self-delete

posted in wrong place...:blush:

[KansDem]

5. Here is Sharron Angle saying SS should be privatized...

Sharron Angle says eliminate Social Security

So was the GOP for privatizing SS before they were against it?

These people lie so much, it makes my head hurt trying to keep up with them! :crazy:

[DJ13]

6. I suppose they've never heard the names Pete Peterson or Alan Simpson?

[Scurrilous]

7. Thanks

K & R :thumbsup:

[Overseas]

8. But then we had the right wing PR blitz of The Ground Zero Mosque.

To distract us from that serious conversation about Social Security, and affirming its inviolability.

Like Magic, our right wing airwaves were consumed with endorsing the GZM-- Do They or Don't They and Why?

Instead of Do They or Don't They support sustaining a minimum floor of the successful safety net that is Social Security, and has been for 75 years.

[pnorman]

9. K & R! Mucho VALUABLE nformation throughout this entire thread!

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