A GOP Plan to Privatize Social Security?

Many Republicans are still talking about privatizing Social Security. Ohioans should know that Rob Portman, the architect of the Bush economy, is one of those Republicans still pushing to change Social Security. 

Dailykos has noted the DSCC scorecard on the Republicans and their plans for Social Security.

DSCC:

Rob Portman

Ohio

Rob Portman wants to end Social Security as we know it.

“There’s also Social Security ideas there, including private accounts...which over the long haul results in a higher rate of return for that program. So that’s something that does actually over the long haul deal with the solvency issue.” [Human Events Online, 4/9/08]

In a January 2007 interview on CNBC, Portman called President Bush’s proposal to privatize Social Security “very important and very sound.” [CNBC, Kudlow and Company, 1/3/07]

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2,074,384 Social Security recipients in Ohio

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Do you know anyone in Ohio that depends completely on Social Security?  I do.  It would be a disaster for the Republicans to dismantle the most successful programs in our country.  What would have happened to those elderly Social Security recipients if Bush would have gotten his way with investing Social Security funds in the stock market, considering the failures we've had on Wall Street under his watch?




Will Rob Portman and the Republicans force the elderly to live in the streets?  Social Security is a promise that our government made to the elderly. Portman and the Republicans need to keep their hands off of it.

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Blogger Interrupted reveals a little known secret about another one of Kasich's out of state staff members:

Jon Keeling, former Kasich staffer, running an astroturf blog out of VA

OMG. Keeling is indeed a former staffer and  according to reports, a very close friend of Kasich's.

 

Plunderbund has more on Kasich:

...Kasich voted, willingly, for trade deals with China that are estimated to have cost Ohio 90,000 jobs.   Ted Strickland voted no, saying it would cost Ohio jobs.

John Kasich voted, intentionally, for the approval of NAFTA that is estimated to have cost Ohio nearly 50,000 jobs.  Ted Strickland voted no, saying it would cost Ohio jobs.

Before Ted Strickland was in Congress, John Kasich voted for tax policies that subsidized moving American jobs overseas.  (H.R. 3545, Roll call vote #392, 10/29/1987.)...

Nice job, Kasich. Why do you hate Ohio workers, teachers, and public employees?