Yeah, I finally got a chance to watch the clip. It’s hard to tell for certain from what was posted, but it appears like it was probably scripted.
I am less forgiving of scripted remarks than off-the-cuff ones where there is less opportunity for fact-checking.
Assuming it was in fact scripted, I have less sympathy. Still some though, as how could even several fact-checkers check every word in every speech uttered by a Republican over the last 87 years? The quote is 12 years old. 3 years ago Lee didn’t want to phase it out. He wanted to index it to life expectancy.
So given that the only counter-example brought up so far is 12 years old and the person who said it appears to have subsequently changed his mind, I’d rate Hannity’s comment “mostly true”.
TIL, according to World Population Review, 3 states without an Atlantic coastline are generally considered part of the East Coast.
The East Coast region of the United States refers to the states that lie along the Atlantic Ocean. This region is also known as the Eastern Seaboard or the Atlantic Coast. There are 14 states with a shoreline on the Atlantic Ocean. Those states are Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia. The states of West Virginia and Vermont do not have a coastline, but they are sometimes grouped in with the East Coast states because of their locations and history. While Pennsylvania does not touch the Atlantic Ocean coastline, it is still considered an East Coast state. The east coast states include the Mid-Atlantic Region, comprised of Delaware, D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Most people who favor privatization don’t consider that ending Social Security. It’s a change, certainly.
When I Googled their names and “Social Security” I got a lot of hits about making changes to Social Security and none in the top 25 or so were about ending it.
Naw, I consider Columbus the end of the east and the beginning of the Midwest. Cleveland is east.
That’s one of the reasons Ohio had been such a bellwether for so long. It encompassed the east, the midwest, farming communities, mining communities, mountains… a real cross-section of America wrapped into one state. But as the midwestern parts of Ohio are growing and the rest is shrinking, it’s less representative now than it used to be.
I have trouble grasping that privatizing Social Security is not ending it. It is not the same as ending benefits for the elderly (though I suspect some Social Security benefits would end), but it would be a drastic change, almost certainly with less guaranteed income to the elderly. (Anyone could argue that Social Security is not guaranteed either.)
I didn’t kill the guy. I just cut off his air supply.
And for twig, give me your estimate on the minimum capital requirements associated with private guarantors for payments that are 50 years in the future.
Peeps just ignore the finance and economic impact of these sort of plans.
I’m not defending privatization. I’m just saying that the people who support it don’t consider that ending Social Security.
IIRC, W wanted to privatize a portion of it.
One of the arguments in favor is that historical market returns are higher (I believe a lot higher) than the interest rate paid to the trust fund so in theory seniors would end up with more money for the same investment. In practice there would be winners and losers but on average people would be ahead.
That said, I don’t favor privatization. It’s one of the few things that’s (somewhat) certain and also indexed to inflation. Plus getting from here to there would be insane.
Plus, any retirement system for most of the people in a country as large as the US is inherently pay as you go. Trying to make it advance funded is just misleading.
Worth repeating every time. He is legally not news or a reporter, he has stated as much, Fox News has stated as much.
Anything said by him should be viewed most generously as entertainment. I would say it’s propaganda, especially with his relationship as an informal advisor with the former President. Nothing he says should be taken at face value. If he told me my fast food order would be $1.06 I would ask to see the receipt.
