But that doesn’t mean the filthy-rich dork shouldn’t buy me a new computer.
And speaking of Social Security and the GOP push for partial privatization accounts, aWpTiMuS finds flaws in the online calculator Democrats are using to mislead that portion of the voting public still crazy enough to believe anything they have to say.
I’ve read on Kevin Drum’s site that the Democratic calculator is probably underestimating investment returns while the Republican-leaning calculators (Cato, Hoover, GOP) are based on very rosy expected returns. It would be nice to split the difference or otherwise figure out which calculator is more accurate (they’re both guesses, of course), but that probably doesn’t matter since there hasn’t been an actual plan proposed yet. So we’re stuck with competing guesses allegedly based on a nonexistent plan. It would be nice if there was something real to argue about, but that would take all the rhetorical fun away from lying.
The projected prices of the Iraq War and the coming drug benefits have been so accurate. And it would take a treasonous heart to believe that the Administration isn’t absolutely, positively still on course to halve the deficit by 2008. So I can’t see why the GOP has any trouble convincing the public that their numbers relating to Social Security privatization aren’t Gospel Truth.
Cute whining, jon. But the Democrats are lying – at least by the standards of lefty blogs as applied to Brit Hume.
I expect all the Democrats to resign.
Jon:
The Democrats are applying ZERO investment returns in their calculator. All they’re doing is taking their generated normal Social Security benefits, then applying a cut to them and calling it the ‘Bush plan.’
That’s the spirit, Jeff! You tell ‘im! Oh, and don’t forget the pie. Pie for everyone!
Well, if there was a Bush plan, maybe it could be attacked or defended. But since there aren’t any details, we may as well be arguing about gnomes’ favorite pizza toppings. If I get to be the Democratic representative, I’ll say green onions and mushrooms. Lots of mushrooms.
Curiously, though, you’d be wrong. Gnomes don’t like mushrooms. Hate ‘em, in fact. Oh, they’ll sit on them alright, with or without a fishing pole. But eat them? No way. Little known fact: it was gnomes who first came up with the idea of pineapple on pizza. The filthy pint-sized denizens of the underworld.
If you eat the right kinds of mushrooms, you can ask the gnomes about their preferences face to face.
Well, Jeff if you would have taken me up on my offer you might have made enough to buy a new computer….
*note to the pervs, there was no sexual favors involved.
*note to the pervs, there was no sexual favors involved.
That’s just wrong.
McGehee, you mean there should have been?????
Im gonna go with yes.