Posted 9/03/2002 07:41:00 AM by Douglas

Some more brilliance from John Bloom, a.k.a. Joe Bob. This one looking for the
lost liberals. Excerpt:

Social Security is a good example.

Social Security is the most liberal governmental program in the history of the nation. It's actually a COMMUNIST idea -- the redistribution of wealth to create universal retirement income. Social Security is falling apart BECAUSE it's a communist idea. All big government-run economic plans like that eventually sputter and die.

So where's the conservative who will say "Get rid of it"?

Doesn't exist.

It gets better.

You'll find guys who say they want you to be able to take your Social Security money and invest it in Enron, which is some kind of twisted economic theory that doesn't come from Adam Smith or Karl Marx, but creates a mutation of both: let's take money from some of the people, give it to other people, but let them invest it in yet another group of people who are probably the same people who gave it to them in the first place, and if they lose all their money, it's not the government's fault, even though the government gave them the money in the first place.

And where's the liberal who will say: "Run a permanent deficit to pay for Social Security"? That, after all, is how you run a socialist program.

But that species of politician doesn't exist either.