Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Ugh: In a disgusting NYT op-ed, The Old and the Rested, John Tierney writes: (excerpts) Is it possible that people [in their late 60's and 70's are still physically capable of putting in a full day's work at the office?
[Social Security] promotes greed and sloth.
If the elderly were willing to work longer, there would be lower taxes on everyone and fewer struggling young families. There would be more national wealth and tax revenue available to help ... the many elderly below the poverty line because they get so little Social Security. Response: - Citing three exceptional instances of old folks performing in track & field does not a case make.
- Retirement is not sloth.
- Tierney's trap: He claims to be concerned about "the many elderly below the poverty line because they get so little Social Security", but advocates a situation where the "elderly [are] willing to work longer." Those elderly include those "below the poverty line," so why pretend to care about them - as Tierney does?
Here you have it. Tierney claims Social Security is outright bad: promotes greed and sloth. Brooks calls it welfare. These guys aren't even hiding behind clever programs to weaken the system. They want to persuade you that Social Security is bad and therefore should be eiminated.
posted by Quiddity at 6/14/2005 12:02:00 PM
5 comments
i love these people who sit on their arses all day in front of a pc and say people should work till they are 70. if you were a roofer, or a fireman, or a construction worker, or a fisherman, or a letter carrier, you know, a job where you do hard physical, sometimes back-breaking work, i'm sure you'd love to work till you're 70 years old.. or until you drop dead, whichever comes first.
yeah, no shit. How 'bout the editorial stable of the NYT starts the ball rolling and hand their jobs over to some seventy year olds
julia:
I can think of a few folks over 70 I'd like to see writing editorials and columns for the Gray Lady:
Howard Zinn
George McGovern
Professor Avenger(One of only 2 or 3 folks who protested when Nixon came to the San Jose State College(now University) to campaign for the 1952 Repub ticket)Also, is living refutation of the Tommy Smothers line about his higher education.
Gore Vidal(They finally got to scrubbing that username/password out of their system. I wonder, how long it was in there?)
Nat Hentoff(by 5 days, check it out: http://tinyurl.com/dv3c9)
Please feel free to add more candidates, maybe they'll get the 'hint'.
a favorite line from molly ivins pointed out this republican argument that welfare (or in this case, entitlements) promotes greed and sloth, sapping people of motivation -- this argument somehow never get's applied to tax subsidized corporations or trust fund kids.
ha.
oops, maynard beat me to it.
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