February 3, 2005 · The American Association of Retired Persons is lobbying against President Bush's proposal to allow people to put a portion of their Social Security savings into private accounts. The powerful senior citizens group has found an improbable ally in their fight -- Rock the Vote, the youth get-out-the-vote organization promoted by MTV.
This won't come as a surprise to those of us who watched the Rock The Vote group perpetuate the lies spread by Democrats about Bush's intent to re-institute the draft.
Regardless of whether you believe the Social Security program will crap out in 2018, 2042 or some time in the decade after that you cannot deny that the program will crap out some time in the future if something is not done. Reform of this program is of vital interest to young voters like myself. The benefit guarantees of this program are very much in doubt for those of us who are now paying into the system and will be expecting benefits around the time of the predicted problems. We need to know that the program is going to be fixed so that we aren't left high and dry when its our turn to collect.
One would hope that a "non-profit, non-partisan organization" working to "empower young people to create change in their communities and take action on the issues they care about" would be able to set partisan ship aside and work with Republicans to enact reforms that will be vital to young voters decades from now. Unfortunately Rock The Vote has put the best interests of young voters aside in order to toe the Democrat party line.
Those of you out there who are young voters like myself would do well to keep this in mind the next time MTV takes it upon itself to tell you how to vote. They don't really have your best interests at heart, just the interests of the DNC.