It's not a lie at all. We have the top Republican on the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, proposing allowing younger people to put Social Security money into personal accounts and we had the last President, who also happened to be a Republican, proposing privatizing SS.
We're not talking about some back-bencher casually throwing out an idea.
(Excerpt) In late January 2010, Ryan released a new version of his "Roadmap." It would give across the board tax cuts by reducing income tax rates; eliminating income taxes on capital gains, dividends, and interest; and abolishing the corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the alternative minimum tax. The plan would privatize a portion of Social Security, eliminate the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance, end traditional Medicare and most of Medicaid, and terminate the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The plan would replace these health programs with a system of vouchers whose value would decrease over time. (End)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan_(politician)
Does anyone believe the Republican Party would put someone in charge of the House Budget Committee if their ideas were not purely Republican? Unfortunately, it's not just SS the Repubs want to destroy as shown in the above statement.
When the economy is limping along and people are losing jobs the Republican solution is to throw those affected citizens under the bus. At the very time the citizens need government help the Republican solution is to throw them to the wolves on Wall Street.
The Republican slogan should be, "When the going gets tough we're out of here!"
