Yellowdogtexan
06-13-2008, 12:27 PM
bush's attempt to privatize social security was a complete flop even though the GOP controlled both the House and Senate during 2005. During 2005, mc :cane has supported bush on these efforts but remember this was just after mc :cane sold his soul to bush/rove for their support for the GOP nomination in 2008. Now mc :cane is flip floping on his position on the privatization of social security.http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/13/mccain-denies-his-record-of-supporting-social-security-privatization/During his town hall event in New Hampshire yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) got into a verbal back and forth with a voter over his support for Social Security privatization. McCain told the man, “I’m not for, quote, privatizing Social Security. I never have been. I never will be.” ...
But McCain’s record begs to differ:- “Without privatization, I don’t see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits.” [C-Span Road to the White House, 11/18/2004]
- “As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it — along the lines that President Bush proposed.” [Wall Street Journal, 3/3/2008]Not only was McCain “a big booster” of Bush’s 2005 plan to privatize Social Security, but one of his top economic advisers, Carly Fiorina, recently told conservative radio host Bill Bennett that McCain “supports private accounts as one of the ways to reform the system” and that “he will continue to be supportive of those.”Again, mc :cane does not either remember his prior position or is flip flopping again.
But McCain’s record begs to differ:- “Without privatization, I don’t see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits.” [C-Span Road to the White House, 11/18/2004]
- “As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it — along the lines that President Bush proposed.” [Wall Street Journal, 3/3/2008]Not only was McCain “a big booster” of Bush’s 2005 plan to privatize Social Security, but one of his top economic advisers, Carly Fiorina, recently told conservative radio host Bill Bennett that McCain “supports private accounts as one of the ways to reform the system” and that “he will continue to be supportive of those.”Again, mc :cane does not either remember his prior position or is flip flopping again.