Posted 3/29/2011 09:30:00 PM by Douglas

What's wrong with social security? Santorum, hit me with some crazy:

"The Social Security system, in my opinion, is a flawed design, period. But having said that, the design would work a lot better if we had stable demographic trends," Santorum said. "We don't have enough workers to support the retirees . . . . A third of the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion."

Oh wow, there's so many things wrong with that I can't even decide where to start. First off, there's not enough people due to abortion? I don't want to google how many abortions are performed a year in this country any more than I want to google Santorum (if you don't know the joke, don't do it), but I don't think there's anywhere close to a straight line between abortions and any lack of little worker bees in this country subject to the government's confiscatory taxes.

But just like any good ponzi scheme, and Social Security is the best one in the world because you go to jail if you don't contribute, you have to have new suckers all the time paying into it or it just doesn't work.

But on the other side of that coin, if the ponzi scheme isn't working, it means you have too many people pulling money out than you have paying in. So doesn't that mean there's too many people at the top of the pyramid? So instead of blaming too few people on the bottom, why not blame another federal money pit, Medicare, for keeping old people alive too long. Wouldn't that "fix" social security, too?

So don't go blaming not enough people getting born into a horrible socialist nightmare ponzi scheme. Blame not enough people dying out of it.