Is it safe to assume that the subject of privatizing Social Security will not be brought up

[BrklynLiberal]

by the repukes during this election cycle?

:think:

[Old and In the Way]

1. The Dems should ask McCain if it's a good idea.

Make him refute it. Thats 30 years of refutation. Make him gag on it.

[anarch]

2. IRLOL

[applegrove]

3. Dems came out with an ad about McCain being for the privatization of

social security. I saw it somewhere on the DU.

[OHdem10]

4. MCCain brought it up early on. We know it is aim or goal of

Republicans. However, IMO, it will not be discussed until after
the election.

[Zenlitened]

5. Sen. Obama has very kindly saved them the trouble:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9GZUtCgPc

:dem:

[doublethink]

8. Thanks for posting that ..... ~~ !! n.t.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. That ad should be run on every station in the country...

For that stand alone,if not for the rest of his insane program, mcsame should lose!!!

[DeadManInc]

6. I would say that was a pretty safe assumption.

[bluethruandthru]

7. But we need to bring it up over and over.

Be sure to bring it up often to any McCain supporters. Make sure they know that it's one of McCain's goals. ...along with taxing their employer sponsored medical benefits.

[nichomachus]

9. No -- but they're very patient

they've been organizing this disaster since 1934 -- a few more months won't hurt. After all, the attention span of the average American is just about the same as that of a three-month-old puppy.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. I hope that the situation is changing....and people will realize what thieves the repukes are.

Perhaps it was this realization that kept FDR in office after the depression, and it will work again..

[cottonseed]

11. He needs to be asked about it now.

I want to see his expression, or better yet, watch him butcher the answer. I'm sure he hasn't been assigned talking points on it since the economic crisis.

[johnaries]

13. that is a safe assumption. Which means we need to "bring it up" Again, and again, and.....nt

[Firespirit]

14. Nope

I may be laughed at for suggesting this, but in my pre-emptive defense I will say that I have never seen a group of people so proficient at selling pig shit to people while telling them it's Belgian chocolate. They do it brazenly, and people lap it up. I guess their sense of smell doesn't work.

With that in mind, I would not be surprised if McCain's "advisors" (read: Gramm) came out with a plan to "help Wall Street" and they made no secret that its mechanism was to funnel Social Security money into it. These recent posts on DU about that being the original intention for the SS privatization scheme have put me on alert for exactly that kind of proposal. McPain would sell it as the guaranteed balm that Wall Street needs, that it would fix what ailed the stock market, and looky here, YOU TOO could benefit from it.

I'm not saying they WILL try it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.