Say Anything Blog

Hooray for MaConservative/LiberalCain !!! He’s got my vote. How does he feel about tax cuts?

What is his plan..?  You can say you support anything, but if the plan you support is bad policy, than what do you have but more crap..?

Did he support Bush’s attemtp to move SS..?  Just wondering..

atease

atease

There are several stupid reasons in favor, and several stupid reasons against.  You’ve aptly laid out the good reasons for; the good reason against is that the return will be lousy after management fees and overhead.  This objection can be overcome with a good plan, so we’ll see what St. McCain has.

If the point of private accounts is to put away our money so that greedy politicians can’t divert the money to their pet projects, why not just end Social Security and let us have our money? I know that ending SS is political suicide, but let’s be honest: private accounts are just conservative nanny statism. It assumes that Americans are too financially inept to plan for their own futures. Now if McCain allowed us to opt out of the system in exchange for no future SS benefits, that would be progress.

...the good reason against is that the return will be lousy after management fees and overhead.

To the contrary; lots of people make money that way every day.

If you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it.

why not just end Social Security and let us have our money? I know that ending SS is political suicide, but let’s be honest: private accounts are just conservative nanny statism. It assumes that Americans are too financially inept to plan for their own futures.

I think you’re letting the perfect be the enemy of the good here.  I’m all for ending SS and passing the money back to the American people, but political realities are what they are.

Private accounts would at least be an improvement.  Once we’ve moved in that direction, perhaps we can act further to give Americans even more control over this money.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Realisticaly, the majority of people can’t take care of themselves. What a pathetic lot. They look to government to tell them how to do it, when to do it, where to do it, and what to do it with.  They are forever sucking on the government teat. SS should go to the private sector for investment, they “always” do a better job for less cost.  Government is expensive and wasteful.  Afterall, it is a large welfare system where efficiency does not exist.

Actually Rob, McCain has advocated personal retirement accounts for some time now...since at least the late 90s. In fact, he has voted in favor of them in the past.

It’s odd to me that you could say to Ace that he’s letting “the perfect be the enemy of the good” on Social Security, yet you say you won’t vote for McCain because he’s not a good enough Conservative. I submit that you’re the one making the perfect the enemy of the good, because any serious vetting of McCain’s LONG record of service exposes him as a fairly solid-if not perfect-conservative.

More on SS:
[Democrats] argue—another way of saying that Americans are too dumb
to be entrusted with their own money. Much better to continue entrusting
it to Washington, which has managed Social Security so skillfully that
workers younger than 50 know they will never get back in benefits what
they are paying into the system now.” --Jeff Jacoby