Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Cracking the McCain code

Yesterday John McCain expressed his outrage over the way Social Security works and ignorance over that fact that it was created to work this way:

Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace.

Translation: Hey, you young Obama supporters - you're so stupid you don't even know that some of your payroll taxes are going to support your parents and grandparents. You should be angry about it and vote for me because conservatives are going to destroy Social Security and then you can keep your money and either spend it on all those new electronic gadgets you love, or put it in the stock market where financial institutions can make money off of you, and your parents and grandparents will just have to fend for themselves the way I did - they'll have to find an heiress to marry.