Sen. Ron Johnson: Social Security was “was set up improperly”John,

Senator Ron Johnson has a weird idea about how to get re-elected in Wisconsin: Complaining about Social Security.

Sen. Johnson just declared that Social Security was “set up improperly” and should have been gambled to on the stock market―just as George W. Bush hoped to do in 2005. Just imagine if he had succeeded, and our nation’s retirement security would have been wiped out in the 2008 stock market crash.

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Why does Sen. Johnson want to risk our guaranteed benefits? Because his buddies on Wall Street could charge extraordinary fees to manage Social Security’s $2.9 trillion trust fund.

This isn’t Ron’s first anti-Social Security broadside. Just a few weeks ago he pushed to make it easier for Republicans to hold Social Security and Medicare benefits hostage to extract cuts, the way they tried and failed to do under President Obama.

And he has heartily endorsed a plan from Senator Rick Scott (famous for defrauding Medicare¹ before turning to politics) that would end Social Security and Medicare in 5 years.

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Alex Lawson
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¹ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/03/florida-democratic-party/rick-scott-rick-scott-oversaw-largest-medicare-fra/

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