Defending Social Security

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Allow me to quote Atrios, favourably:

Look, people who advocate adding "personal accounts" to Social Security are just stupid people. Really, just morons. There's no reason to do it. There's no reason to take any part of Social Security contributions and put them in a little fund account with my name on it...

There is no problem with the Social Security system. People who continue to argue that there is -- and that the problem can be "solved" with the magic private accounts fairy -- either have broken brains or are attempting to push an agenda for ideological reasons or for personal enrichment for themselves and their kind.

He's right, and, as usual, he tells it like it is as bluntly as anyone in the blogosphere.