But he did call Social Security a disgrace. The concept of present-day retiress being paid with the taxes of young workers is the very definition of Social Security. When he calls the “current system” a disgrace, he’s referring to the fact that the system hasn’t been privatized into a 401(k).

It’s kinda like saying “I like cats, except for their whiskers and claws and tails and cat ears and all those other cat parts.”
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EXACTLY. Clearly what McIgotmine thinks is a disgrace is the very CONCEPT that we are all in this together and we ought to care about and for one another. That IS calling SS a disgrace. I dont pay into SS I pay into a parallel program where I pay quite a bit more and GET quite a bit more but its done in EXACTLY the same way.

“So the point is, yes, a society and government takes care of citizens who need our help. That’s what America is all about.”

Um, exactly how do you take care of citizens who need our help if you don’t, …take money from one group of Americans and give it to another.”
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Is the electric company TAKING money from you when you pay your electric bill? Taxes are the price we pay for a society. If you dont like it go live on an island somewhere and eat coconuts. Isnt it taking money from citizens by your definition and giving it to others when we use our tax dollars for corporate wellfare? When our public cost is used to help make private profit? Why does the rightwing only throw their hissy fits when public money is used to help the needy and yet they applaud when it is used to further inrich the wealthy?

McCain’s misguided belief that “privatization” would “save” Social Security”, and saying it is “broken and needs to be fixed” is less damning because he is still expressing support for the system.

It is FAR more hypocritical in comparison to his position on Health Care than Social Security.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance – now Joe gets it too.

He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union.

If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the tax-payer funded roads.

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers’ Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans.

The house didn’t have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn’t mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: “We don’t need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I’m a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.”

Safety Nets for Lehman Brothers
Safety Nets for Meryll Lynch
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You can’t count that. That’s just his gambling money.

Poor old john mccain can’t open his mouth without contradicting himself anymore.

“Social Security is a joke. I have parents.

Do Joe’s parents know he is counting on them to support him when he retires?

“Social Security is a joke. I have parents. I don’t need another set of parents called the government…Social Security, I never believed in, don’t like it.”

For more, see:
“McCain and His Plumber Hate Social Security.”

it doesn’t really work like that: it’s taking money from ALL americans and giving it back to AMERICA.