Obama's Social Security Whopper

I'm confused--there is a video of McCain on Huffington Post saying that the Tnly way to save Social Security would be to privitize it. Shame on Newsweek? Shame on Factcheck? To the video, folks.

Another scare tactic was performed by Barrack Hussein Obama to the senior citizens. Bad!

How is this a lie? Social Security depends upon the working people of today to pay the benefits of the last generation. If enough people opt out, voluntary or not, the system will collapse. Maybe not today, because the money for today's retirees is already there, but eventually. I'm 39 and it might happen before I retire. Republicans gave always wanted to end SS, but couldn't because it would have been political suicide. However, if they can cripple it so that it dies on it's own, they can look at us and say "See? Social Security was never a viable system anyway." To soften the blow, they tell today's retirees that it won't affect them and it won't, but today's retirees don't seem to care that it will affect me. After all, they're getting theirs. Obama is not lying about this.

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Apparently the the community that supposedly received help from the "community organizer" remains just as it was before his arrival .
There were no Obama supporters there at the end of the film.
It exposes the true ability about the economics of the "community organizer" .

You are being too kind when you refer to outright lies as "misleading exaggerations". When he said McCain would leave elderly women in poverty, parents and grandparens homeless, etc. he knew he was lying and then his campaign worker lies to back up his lie. Don't expect the truth at an Obama rally because "he can't handle the truth" ! I remember Lyndon Johnson using an ad showing a picture of Barry Goldwater then a closeup of two arms tearing up a social security card. I remember some elderly friends saying, "I won't vote for Goldwater because I saw him tearing up a social security card". They really believed that Goldwater would do away with social security. The Democrats know what they're doing, they know they're lying but they think the "end justifies the means". I believe voters today are smarter than they were forty some years ago and they will not "believe the lie", but will vote for the esperience and stability of John McCain.

It amazes me that NEWSWEEK is so quick to point out that OBAMA is wrong about McCAIN/BUSH's social security plan. While McCAIN/PALIN have been lieing their teeth out about OBAMA and hardly a word from NEWSWEEK. Your bias amounts to propaganda.This is why I don't subscribe to your publications.If Newsweek is going to call the candidates out,please be consistent.Personally, I have had enough of the NEOCONS running this country into the ground.

Another scare tactic was performed by Barrack Hussein Obama. Duh!

Newsweek: Retract this comment. You are distorting Obama's words as badly as the opposition. Of course, if SS were to get privatized it would take a while to work in--but McCain/Bush wanted to do this much earlier, and would have liked it to be in place for today's vulnerable Seniors. Plus, if it were to affect today's workers, of course it would destabilize the account for today's retirees.

Harvybing. Again you are not up to date. Both men have stated that they are not part of the Obama team. If you don't believe this do a google search for stories explaining their non-connection.

In March 2008, McCain told the Wall Street Journal, ???I'm totally in favor of personal savings accounts.??? When reminded that his website said something different, he said, ???as part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it???along the lines of what President Bush proposed.??? He was for it, before he was against it. The byline on this article is false. Senator Obama was speaking about the effects of privatizing social security- and if it had been done when Bush got into office, billions more would have been lost. Social Security is more than a retirement fund. It also covers disability, and aid to dependent children. McCain doesn't know what his plans are from one day to the next. Mavericks usually don't.

Doesn't the Social Security System use the payments from today's workers to pay the benefits of those who have retired? If so, wouldn't allowing today's workers to gamble part of their Social Security contributions in the stock market create problems for the system when the market experiences the melt down that happened this week? Therefore, privatization would put the system at risk and make it difficult for the government to maintain payments to those who have already retired? If this is the case then Senator Obama's statement was not false but rather simpler than it needed to be.

Regarding privatization. How many of you out there want your future or dependent upon the stability of the stock market?

Obama's comments are based on McCain's support for GW Bush trying to privatize social security funds (so individuals can "invest" them), and on his own statements supporting privatization recently (although he doesn't like to call it that anymore, since everyone knows what it means). That is not a lie. What we have here is serial media balance syndrome--where each side must be presented as egregious liars if one side is caught lying.

Save it. You couldn't report your way out of a wet paper bag. The media has made itself irrelevant, because it does not uncover the truth, only "each persons' side." Then, if a position is unpopular, they don't report on it at all, because it is too controversial. That's how we got into the Iraq war, a serious debacle costing trillions of dollars. Besides, everyone knows Big Brother is Big Media and their celebrity stooges who think they are the story. Drop dead. I believe Obama--not you, and sure as heck not Keating 5 McCain.

What Obama said about Social Security is essentially true. Privatizing it destroys it for the reason he cited: Market volatility would make Social Security insecure.

Obama's comments are based on McCain's support for GW Bush trying to privatize social security funds (so individuals can "invest" them), and on his own statements supporting privatization recently (although he doesn't like to call it that anymore, since everyone knows what it means). That is not a lie. What we have here is serial media balance syndrome--where each side must be presented as egregious liars if one side is caught lying.

Save it. You couldn't report your way out of a wet paper bag. The media has made itself irrelevant, because it does not uncover the truth, only "each persons' side." Then, if a position is unpopular, they don't report on it at all, because it is too controversial. That's how we got into the Iraq war, a serious debacle costing trillions of dollars. Besides, everyone knows Big Brother is Big Media and their celebrity stooges who think they are the story. Drop dead. I believe Obama--not you, and sure as heck not Keating 5 McCain.

No matter. The concept of prioritizing Social Security is a bad one. No matter who would be affected, this economic meltdown demonstrates that it is not a good idea for anyone, those 58 yrs and under, anyone. It removes the Security from Social. When I heard them say that, I knew the facts. I have a sister who is 58yrs old and I have children in their 40s. I do not think anyone's Social Security benefits are safe in the open market. If people choose to use their own monies to invest for retirement in the market, that is their business and their risk, and, if they lose most of it or it stops growing, at least they will have their Social Security.