Hell, why not? It’s not like he had a chance anyway.
Walker heard that Christie got some applause for cutting Social Security so he went all in on it.
Ask a bunch of 20-somethings if they think there will be any money for their Social Security checks when they retire, and you will understand one of the important reasons the GOP continues to press that panic button on SS.
Voters who believe that they will never see any benefits from a lifetime of payroll taxes are more willing to accept alternatives that expose their benefits to market risk. Those same voters are more likely to look favorably on the party that is dangling visions of 8% annual returns compounded for decades instead of empty promises of paltry SS checks.
Reform is all peachy, just not the Party of the wealthiests type of reform.
SS is a great program, a necessity and an equalizer that will always be necessary. The fix is no secret and no big deal, so anyone that is talking major reform that takes away from the recipients is selling snake oil. Simply adjust the revenue to match the output and the balance is achieved. Its called fairness and that is all that the people on the unfair side are asking for.
No, SS is not a retirement plan, it’s a safety net, and was never intended to provide a ‘retirement’. It is an “entitlement” as you are entitled to the benefits it provides assuming your employer has paid into the plan… you don’t get to choose to invest your salary/income to ensure you don’t screw yourself in the long run and/or your employer cuts your benefits and guts your actual retirement plan… which seems to be the modus operandi in corporate America today and why people confuse SS with retirement, considering it’s all the majority of Americans have anymore.
And of course by Reform, he means “let them die in the street”.