Comments for The Washington Post's War Against Social Security - Editorializing while reporting at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:30:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/270-the-washington-posts-war-against-social-security-editorializing-while-reporting.html#comment-209 Yes, talk with no preconditions: the Republicans (a few of them) can once again propose the "personal accounts." Then tell them "no." Heck, even when the Republicans controlled Congress the proponents couldn't sneak personal accounts through: too many Republicans would not go along. With every Bush road show appearance the public support for the scheme went [i]down[/i]. "Personal accounts" are an obvious bad idea. Period. Or, instead of saying "no" just ask the proponents to show an analysis (not just wild claims and propaganda) that shows the personal accounts will even work. That should shut them up: an analysis [i]won't[/i] show that. An analysis will show that "personal accounts" as the basis of a general retirement scheme are just [i]a government-mandated, government-controlled bubble scheme.[/i] We need a discussion. We need it to be demonstrated that "personal accounts" are [i]not[/i] the way to provide general retirement security. - hewhoasks Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:13:12 +0100