Rick Santorum Knows Why Rich Don't Pay More To Social Security: Abortion

 
You've probably heard the "social security is bankrupt!" propaganda enough times to half believe it.Social Security is outta money!-- even though it's currently sitting on $4.3trillion, and it's fully funded by existing contribution schedules and existing reserves for the next quarter of a century. And after 2037, it's still 75% funded.Time for lazy old people to work until they're 72!-- again, just cruel bullshit and utterly unnecessary (and in this economy, impossible), unless your only true goal is to slash benefits for retired workers. Maybe someday before the actual minor shortfall in 2037, wealthy people who earn more than a hundred grand a year will have to actually pay into social security for that extra income, because right now the rich don't have to pay into Social Security on anything they earn above $106,800. In other words, Rick Santorum says the reason Social Security is broke (it's not) is because of abortion.

America's craziest abortion nut is campaigning in New Hampshire and was apparently asked about Social Security, which is a subject that frightens old people and middle-aged people and working people in general because, for decades now, they've been told acomplete lieabout Social Security being "on the verge of bankruptcy" because Republicans and Libertarians want to kill off Social Security entirely and send America's elderly into abject poverty. (Does anyone even remember when Bush Junior tried to shut down Social Security a couple of years ago and shovel people's existing contributions into 401ks?)

Anyway, Rick, please tell us what's wrong with Social Security, starting with how it's simplywrongfor workers to have a system by which they contribute part of their own earnings into a government fund so that they have a few dollars to live on, once they're too old to work or simply discarded by WalMart:

"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. ... The reason social security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion."

Rick Santorum, everybody! [ Salon / L.A. Times ]