Wow! Have a look at these GOP pics from 99/2000 RE: SS/Budget

[kuozzman]

This is good stuff!

http://ignorantusa.tripod.com/id12.html

[NMDemDist2]

1. kick n/t

[DELUSIONAL]

2. kick -- indeed -- will the Dems take a leaf out of the GOPigs playbook?

[kuozzman]

3. kick

[Deja Q]

4. CLINTON WANTED TO INVEST SOCIAL SECURITY?!?!??!?!

Well, that's #10 on my now 'most remembered list of things that America's best modern-day republican president has done'.

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That pic truly boils my blood though.

59 million dipshits voted for him. At least they'll get burned too. I suppose I can laugh at THAT.

[depakid]

5. Actually, this may have made perfect sense if

the scenario that many saw in the late 90's played out.

"It’s interesting to ask what would have happened if the General Fund actually had been run responsibly — which is to say, if Social Security surpluses had been kept in a “lockbox”, and the General Fund had been balanced on average.

In that case, the accumulating trust fund would have been a very real contribution to the government as a whole’s ability to pay future benefits.

As long as Social Security surpluses were being invested in government bonds, they would have reduced the government’s debt to the public, and hence its interest bill.

We would, it’s true, eventually have reached a point at which there was no more debt to buy, that is, a point at which the government’s debt to the public had been more or less paid off. At that point, it would have been necessary to invest the growing trust fund in private-sector assets."

See: Paul Krugman's article in The Economist's Voice.

http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048...

[papau]

6. This would have been a great idea - no IOU's on future tax increase on

the rich - which is what we have now in the form of Government Bonds.

Indeed, All this private account/cut back Social Security is about is simply never paying off those IOU's.

If the Soc Sec Trust fund $1.5 Trillion were in a Stock Index Fund the GOP could not talk about defaulting on government bonds owned by Government Trust Funds.