Associated Press: McCain Collects Benefits From Social Security System He Criticizes
This will undoubtedly become the baseline left wing response to anything McCain has to say about Social Security.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security “a disgrace,” he still cashes his own retirement check every month.
“I’m receiving the benefits, the system is broken and, unfortunately, my children and grandchildren, according to the trustees of the Social Security system, will not have the same benefits the present retirees have,” McCain told reporters Thursday on his campaign bus.
McCain’s 2007 tax return shows Social Security benefits of $23,157 for the year, an average of $1,929.75 a month. He said he started receiving the payments “whenever I was eligible.”
The thing about this is that McCain is just getting the money he paid into the system back out. That’s the whole point of the Social Security system. The government takes money from you when you’re young and then redistributes it back to you when you’re old because certain politicians think you’re too dumb to save your own money.
And you get charged an exorbitant fee along the way for the gigantic bureaucracy it takes to administer collection and redistribution.
That McCain objects to the stupidity of this ponzi scheme doesn’t not mean he, like every other American, shouldn’t at least try to get the money he paid in back out.
I, personally, feel that Social Security should be phased out. But if I’ve been forced to pay into it my entire working life I plan on getting what I can out of it when I retire despite my feelings about the program in general.
This is a logical position to have, but given that the left has no good answers to the problems McCain is raising about Social Security they’ll cling to their shallow analysis of his “hypocrisy” on the issue. Because it’s pretty much all they have.
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