Aren't you glad that Social Security isn't invested in the stock market?

[Joe Bacon]

C'mon and be truthful! :evilgrin:

[Tyler Durden]

1. It was a boneheaded, rePuke BS, ripoff scheme.

Now we can point it out in black and RED.

[DrDan]

2. "was"? I think the rePIGS will be back at it as soon as possible

They will never give up getting their greedy hands on this pile of money. The have hated Social Security for for decades.

[Le Taz Hot]

7. The Republicans?

Last I heard, Hillary Clinton thinks it's just a peachy idea! :shrug:

[DrDan]

12. good point - old Hil' isn't as far to the left as most here on this site would like her to be

[havocmom]

3. Yep. NOT in favor of giving payroll taxes to stock brokers to play with.

Workers who can afford to make investments can do that. Forcing the ones who cannot afford investments to make them is just one more form of corporate welfare bankrolled on the backs of those who get the least from capitalism.

Not unlike forcing workers who have been losing real wages for years to buy insurance they can't afford in order to keep working and being further exploited by greedy corporations that don't/won't understand that people making decent wages circulate more money and we all do better.

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. I work in the financial industry

Back when the Republickers were talking about creating retirement investment accounts, EVERYONE I worked with opposed the idea VERY STRONGLY. And mind you, these are the very people who would have made money under such a scheme. Nowadays they are even more strongly against this idea, after seeing what Bush has done to this country.

[lpbk2713]

5. Smirky still has a year to go.

He's capable of anything now that the corrupt BushCo Regime has bankrupted the entire US Treasury.

[sarge43]

6. Hell yes.

Boosting that great line from Cheers, "That'd be like giving spider monkeys an A-bomb."

[Coexist]

8. it would be nice if pundits would mention this while covering the crash.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. Who are the noobs who voted no?

:shrug:

[Tatiana]

10. I prefer the "lockbox" over the "market." n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. ...

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