The Wall Street Journal and the proposed plight of Social Security

I remember John McCain being a lot more interested eight years ago, back in the day when he didn't put his foot in his mouth or go back on everything he seemed to stand for.

Luckily, The Wall Street Journal seems to have a handle on the issue of the viability of his stances. The latest installment: Social Security.

Try and make sense of this: Put all your Social Security in the stock market and let it ride. Same difference: put it on a hound named Grease Lightning and let it ride. The only garaunteed promise to privatization would be that of complete lack of security, marking the whole deal as an ironic moniker.

Without government aid, we're all screwed. Without comprehensive and fair taxation, we're all screwed.

The whole Baby Boomer business is the source of the problem. That's why contraception is so important. Stop having babies. It's a nice thought that money is good during economic boom, but a little forethought would be nice. A little, "five years from now, might not be so swell and dandy," might prove as less of a crisis for government aid.

So, dear America, please stop having so many babies. It's not a competition.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122204378523361477.html