Blackburn Advocates Individual Social Security Accounts (VIDEO)

Right, Marsha. Medicare has SO much more overheard than private health-insurance companies. And everyone knows the bonuses that people in the Social Security Administration collect make Wall Street bankers look like pikers.

Like tens of millions of people, I've been paying higher SS taxes for most of my working life thanks to the Grenspan commission. And apparently all that's accomplished was to make the annual deficits look smaller and enable tax cuts for the wealthy.

Miss Marsha, she look good, she talk good, she think good.

Given that this is the quality of thought that emanates from Republican representatives, why in the world would Obama want to carry on a dialogue with these people? How could such a dialogue be anything but a complete waste of time?

She believes that savings will come from 'the bureaucracy that surrounds' Social Security? Does she realize how efficient SS is? Does she have any idea what she is talking about?

If this woman had the guts to say "look folks, we can't balance the budget, fight several wars, and pass tax cuts unless we slash your social security and Medicare benefits," she'd earn my respect. Instead, she's just another GOP troll spouting the same ol' GOP gobledigook to the same math-challenged half-wits who probably voted her in.

But don't we already have privatized Medicare? YES!! THEY'RE CALLED INSURANCE COMPANIES YOU MORONS!!

Perhaps we should take baby steps. First we need to privatize congressional pensions and health care.

When the republicans use the word privatize, it means giving it to Wall Street to manage---another case of further transfer of wealth.....imagine if Chimpy had succeeded at doing this......there would be blood in the streets because with the crash of the market, it would be gone with no federal government to bail it out.

This Blackburn is a real moron.

So the Replublican Party wants to do the same thing that Bush wanted to do that was rejected a long time ago. Also, we have all seen what has happened to the Stock Market in the last year so lets have the people on fixed incomes rely on the Stock Market who is only out for themselves. Along with getting rid of Medicare which is how a lot of our elderly get insurance is the exact opposite of trying to get more people insured. I want them to explain exactly all of the good anf favorable things about this plan that would help me. A person in the lower class that needs so much help right now. It won't help me at all. This plan will only help the upper class and that is the only class they are worried about.
I can't believe that there are people that truly think the majority of Americans think this way. I realize not everyone will agree on everything but I can almost guarantee that more than 70% of all Americans will think this is a stupid idea. Who wants to trust Wall Street again. We should have seen how good that was going to be this past year.

Boy, they've just got cases and cases of that snake oil, don't they.

Tax cuts and vouchers. Same old GOP crap.

Someone needs to whack these people with cluebats.
We already have private retirement accounts: they're called IRAs and 401(k)s. They took big hits when Shrub's stock market bubble collapsed, too. - But they can't admit that it happened while their former idol Shrub was preznit, because GOoPers are always right and never damage the economy.

It's time to burn this bitch... take her down.... destroy her....

Coming out to do away with Medicare and SS is the best way I can think of to insure that you won't be re-elected. Both of these programs are sacred to Seniors and the soon to be retired. This is the age group THAT VOTES. I hope the entire GOP backs the Ryan plan.

This again? Please. Spare me. Even with control of Congress and Bush sitting in the WH, the Republicans couldn't get this done. In fact, they presided over the largest (unfunded I might add) expansion of Medicare in the last 40 years a la 2003.

For her next act, she'll be calling for a constitutional amendment to ban abortions. I mean, why not?

Just more noise from the Joe Dirt sound machine. Go home Elly Mae. Your sucking all the air out of the room.

Teabagging Marsha doesn't want to cut the benefits! Just the programs themselves!

Sounds like a snake-oil/Amway/used-car hawker, the sort of rapscallion who might do well in her li'l ole Tennessee district.

She reminds me of that horrible Elizabeth Dole, only worse.

AT 41YRS OLD...GREAT.....CAN SHE ADVOCATE FOR ALL OF THOSE THAT HAVE PAID INTO THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM THUS FAR TO GET A REFUND..

DUMB ARSE MOFO'S AND WHERE THE HECK DOES THE GRANDE OLE RACIST PARTY OF NO IDEAS STAND ON THIS.

BLACKDUMB

You guys need to READ the freaking Ryan plan and not just read what commentators say about it. It would still be run by the government and not by wall street. it would invest in the stock market, which has annual returns of 10% over 100 years. What's the actual return on the SS stuff right now? It also guarantees you get what out what you put in even if things go bad for a few years (that's normally how these cycles work. It would be very similar to what ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES currently HAVE.

Also, the continued claim that all GOP supporters/reps/etc are racist are stupid, move on to a different point not the same old lines, also learn some history. Yes some of the supporters are not all that you would hope for, but there are plenty of well educated people out there as well.

To Eric--learn some history. The South used to be solidly Democratic. Then Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bigoted whites flocked to the Republican Party in droves and form the core of the present day GOP in the South. Now, why would someone who is not a racist and educated enough to know the history, ever want to be identified with a bunch of hypocrites like that??? BTW, Marsha is from Laurel, MS, the same age as me, knows the history. That's why she's still a Republican. (Plus, she doesn't care about anybody but Marsha)