John McCain Thinks How Social Security Works Is Disgraceful

[tycoonfortune]

FUCK ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE FOR COERCED GOVERNMENT-RUN SOCIAL SECURITY

[jr602az]

Fuck John McCain

[spankeydmonkey1]

If the Government would stop taking money out of Social Security and giving an I.O.U. slip in return. There would be no problem with Social Security. The Goernment owes Social Security trillions of dollars that it has conveniently "borrowed" out of the program. Stop that practice and Social Security will fix itself in the long run.

[lakerdave]

Its gotta change , its has to change and I will change it. Thats a plan???

Let borrow the money for 45 nuclear power plants

maybe $500,000,000 ???

100,000 jobs??? What are you going to pay them with??? From who John??? cuz the US is broke and they (nations) have been bailing out the US for 40 years .Federal Reserve eventually cant valuate the dollar if they keep printing it for Iraq, AFghanistan and 700 bases worlwide John. Wake up John!

[realpointz]

john mcain is a traitor

gave away secrets to our enemies in nam

that killed thousand of our troops in nam

john mccain fucking woman hater

mccain is a tool

[skoonsf]

McSame is such a poor speaker and will never live through a four year presidential term.

[barneyhoot]

Ron Paul can bring about another 1776. Obama or McCain will bring about a 1984.

[ShitlerHA]

u love saying this O_o

[barneyhoot]

lol yeah its a good line, pass it on :)

[Billlz152]

another thing i dont get...he says washington is broke and things have to change...yet, he is sided with bush, the man to blame for this. Highly publicized politicians are full of it...this country says its for the people, yet we have little to no say whatsoever. My last hope is Obama, if he doesn't change things, im gonna have to learn a new language, cuz my ass is out to Europe.

[Billlz152]

when you hear..."I Promise You..." You can see the lie in his body language. It's consistent in every McCain video.

[paddedshell]

Somebody PLEASE vigorously shake both of the old geezers hands, his legs, and every other limp appendage dangling off him. Put him in a full body cast to match his C* wife Cindy's feeble wrist!

[Gillz17]

Once again the "compassionate, "tolerant", "peaceful" left shows its hypocracy...

Posted by paddedshell...

"Somebody PLEASE vigorously shake both of the old geezers hands, his legs, and every other limp appendage dangling off him. Put him in a full body cast to match his C* wife Cindy's feeble wrist!"

It's these types of comments that people are getting tired of and it is a major reason why McCain WILL win the Presidency.

[paddedshell]

Fresh out of compassion, tolerance, and warm fuzzies. Take your lying, manipulative, power hungry, war mongering devils and have a REAL trial, not a F*n kangaroo court.

[Gillz17]

Lying, manipulative = Dems who say they are standing for working families when the WANT higher energy prices.

Power hungry - Dems saying ANYTHING to trick the American people into getting into any office. Example, Obama hood winking people by trying to make them feel bad for being successful and driving SUVs when in fact the planet is NOT in danger and is merely a ploy to advnace Dems ideas.

War mongering devils - Well since the surge in Iraq DID work I'll take that as a compliment. :)

[uh1n71]

This clown doesn't seem to have a problem with the kids of today having to pay for the occupation of Iraq! This guy is pure SCUM!

[DameDiabolique]

The reason why it's broken is because fucking Republicans and George Bush keep raiding the funds to pay for the war and a bunch of other bullshit.

[limaq]

blah blah blah..

[mjensater]

Its not straight talk,

its WTF TALK!!

[javabudd]

he didn't even answer the fucking question what is wrong with this moron...

[charlietaurus]

why was anyone applauding the vaporous response to a good question. I was republican, but McSame just disgusts me.

[pfuckingzea]

didnt answer the fucking question

[FongoBongo]

you're absolutely right...this guy is more of a puppet than Bush...

[KeyserX]

Wow, he said nothing at all. Nothing! He was asked how he planned to fix social security, he talked for two minutes and said nothing of consequence. Blaming the democrats, saying he'll sit down at a table, going off on some rant about social security 30 years ago.

The man has no plans, that's what's becoming painfully clear as you watch this...

[ThomasB000001]

McCain's comment is yet another example that he is out of touch. It is a disgrace that after being in the U.S. Congress for 26 years, the Senator doesn't understand how the Social Security system works. It's always been pay-as-you-go, with today's workers paying for today's retirees. It's a disgrace is that this is news to John McCain.

John McCain admits that he doesn't know a lot about the economy. Now we also learn that he doesn't know a lot about Social Security.

[3Dsmoke]

1:11 to 1:47 he's talking about the good old days and how nowadays "it's broken again"

lol I half expect him to start saying 'Darn whipper snapper kids! Get off of my lawn!'

[jBo523]

The problem with liberals is that they all want a quick fix and a utopian society... stick to solid conservative values, and a free market economy and we will have the long term results that this republic desperately needs to prevent it from failing.

McCain's not the best choice for that - and neither is the Republican Party currently in power - but it beats the hell out of socialism.

[vonkaiser]

This is just plain wrong. S.S. WAS fixed in the early 80's. And it is NOT broken BECAUSE they have slowly increased payroll taxes so in 2030-40 there would be extra money. The problem isn't partisan bickering, quite the opposite.

The problem is EVERY SINGLE CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT SINCE 1983 HAS STOLEN ALL THE EXTRA MONEY AND PUT IT IN THE GENERAL FUND.

The money IS there, its just in the form of a shitload of IOU notes from congress. So, no they better not take away benefits. FU gimme my money.

[EuropaCar]

i kind of wanted him to actually explain what he's gonna change, not saying just that he'll sit down and discuss it

[ZeMoreno]

Wow, he danced beautifully around the question.

[Zeldovich]

Social Security is not supposed to be pay-as-you-go. That's why the Social Security trust fund exists. That's why the amount you received on social security is partly based on how much you paid in. McCain may mean that it's a disgrace that politicians in Washington have been robbing the trust fund for decades, and hence we now must depend on fewer workers paying for more retirees.

[moejardines]

He doesn't once mention where this magical new money is going to be found. That was the very definition of empty rhetoric, because he's proposing tax cuts, iraq ad infinitum, health care reform and SSI reform? HOW??? NUMBERS JERK!

Senior citizens currently receiving SSI banked on it, that can't be taken away. My check gets bit so old/infirm people aren't totally destitute, and I'm fine with that. They aren't living la vida loca on that chump change, they are merely surviving with it.

[Buckeyes1647]

Oh and Obama's tax increases, forcing employers to offer health care, not doing anything about energy prices for today, taxing oil companies more when they only make a 10% profit and every other socialist idea he has is so much better... liberals.. lol

[moejardines]

There is no good solution to the problem guy, but the GOP blew it over the last 8 years, cutting taxes while running up the credit card balance making war. I'd vote for a potted plant over John McLame.

WE ARE 9.4 TRILLION IN DEBT AND FIGHTING 2 FOREIGN WARS!!!

In a situation where nearly half a trillion is going to INTEREST payments on the debt yearly, something's got to give.

I want to give a different set of economists a chance, the last criminals ran this ship aground.

[jBo523]

haha "GOP blew it" THE DEMOCRATS have been the ones in power and THEY haven't fixed it. Why does everyone blame the president's administration when Congress is the one that makes the laws?!

[moejardines]

Yeah, starting a war we can't pay for while we're already in debt up to our eyeballs, and simultaneously cutting taxes is all on Bush dude.

McCain's lip service won't solve anything, its just pandering to people who are bad at math, ie most of the country.

The democratic majority in the house is less than 2 years old, and the majority in the senate is one vote. You're embarassing yourself here dude, because the congress can't do anything over a veto, which bush said he would do.

[jBo523]

Congress voted for the war in the Iraq War Resolution in 2002 - House: 296-133; including 81 dems and Senate: 77-23; including 29 dems. So again, not Bush.

The government spends more of our taxes on unnecessarily high social welfare programs than they do on the military - the latter being the most important protection we need from the government since 9/11 and well worth the price considering we haven't been successfully attacked since (though numerous plots have been discovered since 2001)

[moejardines]

The resolution in 2002 was not a declaration of war, and was supported by intelligence that is now shown to be, at least, incorrect, and at worst, manufactured by the executive branch.

The characterization of liberals as "tax and spend" is fair, but the GOP for the last 8 years has been "spend and spend". The GOP and the Democratic party have been fiscally irresponsible. Both sides are at fault.

Running an elective, useless war on a credit card was stupid. The CIA and FBI protected us.

[jBo523]

"at worst, manufactured by the executive branch." That right there says it all about you. I love how you libs actually think Bush fabricated the threat in Iraq. As for Weapons of Mass Destruction, just because we didn't find exactly what ours and world Intelligence agencies thought were there does not mean they don't exist. Don't be so naive: Saddam lied to UN inspectors constantly, HAD weapons of mass destruction for years, and even used them on his own people.

[moejardines]

Ignore evidence all you want brother. You bought the company line, despite glaring holes in the evidence for it. Read some foreign press and average it with the amen chorus of some US Media.

Iraq was 100% contained and not a threat. There was no urgency to this conflict. It was 100% elective, preemptive, and stupid. No impartial observer could begin to describe Iraq as a threat. They hadn't even controlled their own airspace in a decade, weren't threatening anyone, and were weak.

[driubi]

lol. "what are you going to do to change social security"... mccain "i'm going to change it".

[lamouchemorte]

Man he really lays on the bumper-sticker slogans in this one.

[cagedtigersteve]

he doesn't understand social security

[TheRedPriestofVenice]

Wow, daring straight talk, Social Security needs fixing.

[allocater]

wow, he calls it a disgrace? In europe it is the fundation of the society. current day workers pay current day retired. and one day their children will pay their retirement. it's called "generation tready" over here.

[Wendy62]

Not only that, it's how Social Security was DESIGNED to work!

[swaggajee]

He never answers a fucking question!!! Oooh saying you're gonna change it and it needs to be changed. That's exactly something Bush would say and is on par with Bush's famous "soveriegn" answer.

McSame, you want to know why your getting your ass kicked? Because you don't give any explanations to how you're going to do anything!! That tells me that you don't have any fucking clue on what you're doing.