Gingrich Gives GOP Social-Security Advice [View All]

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says Republicans should rework their argument about Social Security (news - web sites) because Americans aren't buying the idea that a crisis is near.

"As a practicing politician, you can't get the American people worried about 2018," Gingrich said Friday at the American Enterprise Institute. "If I called you and said, '10 years from today your roof is going to need (to be) fixed, would you like to sign the contract this afternoon?' You'd say to me, 'How about calling me back in nine years, 10 months.'"
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"The urgency ought to be simpler," Gingrich said. "Every day young people are denied the opportunity to have a personal Social Security savings account, they are cheated out of that day's compound interest."
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"We've had control of the Congress now for a decade, had control of the White House for five years," Gingrich said. "And yet, if you look around the planet and say, 'Tell me the 10 most interesting privatization projects, they're not here, because we're worn out."

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Oh my, he's on crack. No one can name privatization successes because they're "worn out"???