Young Voters not buying privatization

ok.... and you want to dismantle the Social Security. ravensteve, I congratulate you for contradicting yourself. Good job.

sablescort, Yeah Social Security tax can be pain in the ass but it does worth our time and our taxes for elders, disabilities, etc etc.. In fact, Social Security is the best invention ever in human history.
 
Like Newt Gingrich said """ The only people should get goverment assistance is your elderly and the disabled. And Newt Gingrich said the social security system should be changed and raise the retirement age to 70. This should not apply people who are over 35. If youre under 35 you should wait until youre 70.'''
 
I agree that Social Security is awesome, one of the FEW programs that actually WORK.
But I wouldn't put my faith in the really young people to understand the nuances of this subject. I saw a poll recently where about 35% of high school students think that the media ought to be censored, that the government ought to approve all printed material before being published.
That is truly frightening.
USA's psy-ops is good, really really good.
 
Beowulf, poor education and lack of 'deep debate/discussion' is the biggest problem. Many kids don't know many things these days but they do know that they need to support the elders thru Social Security because they will become old when their time is up. Also I found out that poll you spoke of is biased due to tricky questions. I will explain bit more in other time whenever I find that blasted article.

Privatization is poor plan, danger and failure to boot.
 
Don't misunderstand me, Mag, I am not putting down our teens. Like you, I put the blame squarely on the material they are presented with.
It is just that I KNOW for a fact that in an average high school, when there is a "debate" concerning the Iraq "war", emotions run very high and you would be shocked at how many of them swallow everything the government or its serf media tells them.
The "dumbing down" of America is rather deliberate, I fear.
 
Magatsu said:
sablescort, Yeah Social Security tax can be pain in the ass but it does worth our time and our taxes for elders, disabilities, etc etc.. In fact, Social Security is the best invention ever in human history.
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True. If Dumbya does pull off the plan, he is totally pissing on FDR's grave.

Social Security, as a part of the "New Deal" era was a true home run when FDR and his boys first set it up. Social Security was one part of the "Alphabet Soup" plans that FDR cooked up to get America out of the Great Depression during the mid 1930's.

Social Security and the Tennessee Valley Authority , I'm possibly sure, are the only surviving agencies left over from the New Deal Era still operating presently.
 
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