The Presidential Candidates on Retirement

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Liberal Press Bias?!?!?!

Wow, could you have gone into less detail of McCain's plans? Better yet, could you have used a more negative buzzword to describe part of it? Perhaps it would lend some balance if you called the Obama and Clinton savings-match plans the socialist savings plan.

Too bad this magazine has become such a liberal rag.

And to Daniel David, I agree fully. Lyndon Johnson's decision to raid the Social Security Trust Fund to finance the War on Poverty and Great Society programs have been an utter failure! We've been engaged in this war on poverty for 40 years. Make our 5-year committment to Iraq and Afghanistan pale in comparison. Plus, we've only lost 4,500 troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Compare that to the destruction and devastation of the black family due to the Great Society initiatives! Point well taken Mr. David! Point well taken!

Michael Peterson of PA @ Jun 09, 2008 07:52:53 AM

More macro, less micro, please

You might want to ask these candidates which ones have a plan for recouping from payers of income and estate the $2 trillion (and still growing to 2017)) Social Security Trust Fund that they "borrowed" from payers of payroll tax in order (among other things) to wage wars that no one would have otherwise agreed to pay for

Daniel David of NM @ Jun 06, 2008 16:10:31 PM

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