Toomey: 'I've Never Said I Favor Privatizing Social Security'

[floydstinkyboy]

i am pretty sure that was doubtalk. but it could have been reverse doubletalk or even tripletalk.

[rmharman]

The right seems to be very fond of distinction without difference. Personal accounts MEANS privatization.

krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010­/08/24/orwell-and-social-secur­ity/

[MarmaladeINFP]

How social security has worked is that the young pay into social security which is what pays for the old who are getting social security. He wants the young people to pay for the old, but he doesn't want the young to have the same social security that they paid into. The problem, as I see it, is that it was the old (especially the Silent and Boomer generatoins) who created the policies that undermined the US economy in the past. Why is it the young should suffer for the mistakes of the old?

[kaysandesses]

I wonder if any of the people there understand that he said he didn't favor privatizing social security and then in the next sentence he advocates what he just denied? what a tool.