Carper wants to kill Social Security in order to save it for his sons. That’s mighty big of him isn’t it? I’d suggest that one way to save it would be to allow Tom Carper to continue paying into Social Security beyond the first week of the new year. If rich folks like Carper kicked in a few cents more each year, we could stop taking about this phony issue. But that would expose me as one of those dirty hippies. Also, why increase payments into the system when you can cut the benefits being paid out to poor losers, as Carper envisions?
[Wistful Aside] You know, it wasn’t so long ago that if a Democratic Senator threw his lot in with the GOP’s plans to dismantle Social Security in phases like Carper is doing, he would be an outcast…. a pariah.
Heck, you youngsters might not know this, but they used to call Social Security “the third rail” of American politics. That was a reference to the electrified third rail of a subway track. Nowadays, it is open season on Social Security and only poor people take public transit, so that metaphor has lost its’ zing.
Now is the part of the post where I’d normally call for someone to tell me why The Honorable Mr. Carper continues to call himself a Democrat, but honestly… what does sit even mean to be a Democrat anymore? I guess we’ve still got the gays and abortions. That’s something.