If you want an example of hypocrisy, just look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JE48XHKG64

FDR himself planned to include private investment accounts in the Social Security program when he proposed it.

In a written statement to Congress in 1935, Roosevelt said that any Social Security plans should include, “Voluntary contributory annuities, by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age,” adding that government funding, “ought to ultimately be supplanted by self-supporting annuity plans.”

FDR suggested the following proposal, but the third portion consisting of voluntary annuities (Title XI) was stricken from the final bill on the last day of Senate debate:

In the important field of security for our old people, it seems necessary to adopt three principles:
First, non-contributory old-age pensions for those who are now too old to build up their own insurance. It is, of course, clear that for perhaps thirty years to come funds will have to be provided by the States and the Federal Government to meet these pensions.

Second, compulsory contributory annuities which in time will establish a self-supporting system for those now young and for future generations.

Third, voluntary contributory annuities by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age.

More so, at least than the whiney, nit-picking, jackasses trying to play ‘gotch-ya’ with un-news like this.

Now get back to work.

Discordia, if I remember correctly, while Reagan was younger when he became president than McCain is now, he did take a lot of crap for his age at the time. I was only a little tykette, but I remember everyone making an issue of his age and his unnaturally black hair.

The media, and others, constantly bash John McCain for his age. Yet, this same media treated Ronald Reagan like some sort of political god … and Reagan was much older than McCain when Reagan won his elections.

Actually, not true. Reagan was 69 when he was first elected president in 1980. McCain is already 71.

The media, and others, constantly bash John McCain for his age. Yet, this same media treated Ronald Reagan like some sort of political god … and Reagan was much older than McCain when Reagan won his elections.

BTW: People who pay into SSA are actually paying for the currently checks. SSA is not a savings account into which a taxpayer pays into with the right to withdraw those deposits at some future date. This scheme is one of the problems with SSA: not enough people are paying enough into the system to cover the amount of the disbursements. It will get worse as the baby boomers age into the system.