Video: Colbert mocks GOP's Social Security privatization ideology
Last night on the Colbert Report, host Steven Colbert mocked the Republican position on Social Security, which concludes that we should leave our seniors out in the cold to fend for themselves:
COLBERT: "I say retirement is a reward only for our most productive. It's an incentive. You get to retire when you've done your work. And if you aren't rich enough to retire, you obviously still have more work to do.
"...Putting old people to work could solve another big problem: illegal immigration. If we deport illegal immigrants, who will do the job Americans don't want to do? Bingo, as in get those old people out of the bingo parlors and into the fields."
Sometimes it takes a comedian like Steven Colbert to expose how crazy the GOP proposal to privatize Social Security really is (obviously that part about illegal immigration was just a comedic add-on, and not really part of the GOP plan). What Colbert did not mention was the fact that the Republican Social Security privatization scheme would add to the National Debt for future generations to pay off. Sound like a good plan?
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