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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Kean on Social Security
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So, here is the fullest explanation that young Kean has offered on Social Security to date, a rather long-winded yet empty response full of campaign soundbites, a response that manages to sound thoughtful but that lacks any meaningful policy prescriptions.
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Menendez, also turns to the political cudgel, but his response ultimately is pretty straightforward. He opposes privatization and does not believe the system is in crisis
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To which, I respond:
http://www.hallnj.org/virtualdebate/flynn_response3.jsp
How about, instead of tweedle dum TOM KEAN’s privatization of something not specific, and tweedle dumber ROBERT MENENDEZ’s “what problem? there’s a problem? where?”, perhaps we could consider a libertarian solution?
LEN FLYNN, in the “other condidate’s section”, like sitting in the back of the election bus, (everyone not a D or an R has no chance, and everyone knows they’re just nut jobs anyway), is the Libertarian candidate for Senate. His answer recognizes that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. He’ll tackle it head on.
It has long been recognized that Social Security is (a) not insurance, but a fraud on the working class; (b) a federal slush fund to hide the true costs; (d) a socialist’s dream that puts everyone on the welfare dole; and (d) a political football to scare voters with.
Chile, guided by a American educated free-market economist, “unwound” their social security system from a government joke into a free market engine of savings and investment. And, at the time, Chile was largely illiterate. That’s doesn’t make them stupid; by “social security” standards, they were a heck of lot smarter than we are.
So, in sum, Flynn offers a real choice to solve social security. End the theft of a lifetime’s work. Allow the poor not to pay a 100% death tax. Stop the wealth transfer from from poor minority men to rich white women! And, make us as smart as the average Chilean — get the gubamint out of the retirement business.
Or, you can flip a coin and pick a big gubamint republicrat or the big government democan. Don’t kid yourself, there’s NO difference between the empty suits.
I’m voting for small government. Every time. No excuses.
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