Social Security Reform: A Free-Market Alternative

Social Security is in trouble. A reform is needed.
But not the one suggested by the President. What is
needed is a reform that reduces the role of
government, not enlarges it. Here is an alternative,
pro-free-market reform of Social Security that I
suggest.

The end of Social Security would be the end of something that should never have been started in the first place. The root of the system is the philosophy of collectivism, in that it forces everyone into a giant stewpot as it were, in which individuals are compelled to support the parents and grandparents of total strangers, whether they want to or not, in exchange for themselves later on being compulsorily supported by the children and grandchildren of total strangers. [read more]

The plain fact is that those who think Social Security is a great and moral function of government are a simpering gaggle of collectivist weenies, stealing other people’s money to pay for their own lack of financial planning. They are the great unwashed herd of Hunter S. Thompson’s “generation of swine,” unabashedly sucking the government teet as though this is perfectly acceptable behavior. They corrupt the “land of the free and the home of the brave” into the “land of the free-loaders and the home of the depraved.” They are small-minded, venal thieves using lofty words like “social justice” in a pathetic attempt to disguise their corrupt character and moral decay. But lovers of Liberty see their true nature as depraved, sullen socialists. And they hate us for this.

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Mrs. Samurai February 27, 2005 at 8:18 am: Well, that’s a little harsh don’tcha think? What do you expect from generations that have been in government schools during their most formative years being told how wonderful government programs can keep old people from living their last years hungry and shivering in their threadbare blankets? When you grow up surrounded by a government institution, it’s sometimes hard to see that there’s another, better way.

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