granny’s green
I love the recent MoveonPac contest regarding Bush’s social security plan:
It’s a fun and informative source for the anti-privatization view. I’ve gone back and forth on the idea myself. I’m inherently skeptical of any plan of Bush’s, but the idea of creating private accounts for retirement didn’t initially seem off the mark.
After all, I think this country has become too dependant on the government taking care if it. It’s one thing to have a safety net and another thing entirely to feel entitled. People don’t take responsibility for their own situation. Social security shouldn’t be treated as a retirement fund—we’re supposed to create those ourselves. Social security should boost people out of hard times, to care for those who have had suffered unforeseen misfortune and can turn to no one else for help.
But I also think there are better ways to deal with the problem than scrapping the system and gambling that money on the stock market.
I just really wish this country could have an intelligent conversation about real issues instead of screaming matches, fought by two minority extremes who will never listen to each other.
