John McSame declared that in the face of a tanking economy, he wants to privatize Social Security in precisely the same way that George W. Bush tried to a few years ago. Calling the bedrock social safety net program an "absolute disgrace", McSame is basically laying down the gauntlet against seniors.
Clearly, whatever independence McSame ever had is gone. He will devastate the single most effective program of the New Deal, and leave Seniors to fend for themselves. This guy doesn't know whether he's for or against privatization. But he's willing to say whatever it takes to cozy up to the right-wing that despises him.
Thus, the "Straight-Talk Express", has become the "Straight-Face Express". He'll say anything, and he'll say it with a straight face. This has just become embarrassing.
A typical wedge issue approach, dividing rather than uniting. Of course, one wonders how many younger people will think a private account is a good idea, now they have seen how volatile the stock market can be? He is not telling the younger generation that it is the politicians who have sucked the social security money out of the sccount and used it for other things, pet projects, wars overseas, bridges to nowhere, and so on. If Congress and the President had left the social security account alone, and not tampered with the fix passed under Clinton, we would have no need to talk about "fixing" social security.
Whatever happened to the social contract, to the common good? Oh, that's right, it's yoyo again, greed is good, divide the sucker middle class against itself, and play one part of the citizenry against another.