Liberals Still Not Ready To Embrace Private Property And Freedom

J.J. Jackson* | July 9, 2006

It’s funny how the left goes bonkers any time someone brings up Social Security and (gasp) privatizing it. Oh the horrors of letting people control their own money right? Heaven forbid that we are allowed to take that money and invest it and make more than the pittance of a return we get on Social Security right?

Mr. Bush, in a June 27 speech extolling the line-item veto, vowed to keep fighting to fix the impending financial crises in both Social Security and Medicare.

“If we can’t get it done this year, I’m going to try next year. And if we can’t get it done next year, I’m going to try the year after that because it is the right thing to do,” Mr. Bush said in a speech in Washington hosted by the Manhattan Institute think tank. “Now is the time to solve the problems of Medicare and Social Security and I want your help.”

Democrats immediately went on the attack, saying the president intends to bring back his plan to divert a portion of the Social Security payroll tax into personal accounts for individual taxpayers — a plan that failed to gain traction last year.

“For President Bush to call for his allies in Congress to dismantle Social Security with the same old reckless and hugely unpopular privatization plan signals just how hopelessly out of touch he really is. Privatization was a terrible, irresponsible idea in 2005; it’s every bit as bad today,” said Brad Woodhouse, spokesman for Americans United (AU), a group that fought the president’s Social Security plan last year and is gearing up for a rematch this election year.

AU plans an effort in 20 states to “hound members of Congress to sign anti-privatization pledges before the election,” Mr. Woodhouse said. - Washington Post

They are so scared that if people control their own lives that they will actually decide they don’t need them any more to help them out.

Of course the bigger issue is still (and this challenge is now 10 years old and running) for any left wing liberal to show me where in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution Congress is granted the power to take money from the citizens and provide for their retirement and the retirement of others. Yeah we’ve had a couple limp brains try the whole “It says ‘provide for the general Welfare’” argument which of course falls apart when you actually READ the Federalist Papers. But hey, I’m willing to keep making the challenge. Because I know I am right when I say that Social Security, Welfare and all the rest of those federal government entitlement programs are unconstitutional. And I know it sends liberals scurrying for the exits when I bring it up too.

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