A Boston Tea Party …(Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell)

Social Security reform should be a major concern for all conservatives for two reasons. First, private accounts will allow you to keep your money. You will be able to invest it and pass it on to your heirs should there be money left when you die. The second reason for true conservatives to embrace private accounts is that the federal government will not be able to spend it.

Federal employees get to keep their money. Congressmen are not part of our Social Security system. They are allowed to invest their own money. This is the million-dollar example that any reporter or debate host should be asking Democrats in congress. Why Mr/Mrs. Congressperson are you so supportive of the current plan yet you do not take part in it? Do you not think that you should be a member of the same plan as the citizenry that elected you?

The Democrats are allowed to get by with wanting one plan for most of us while they take part in something better. The don’t ask, don’t tell attitude of the media allows them to live this double standard. Every debate, every time the issue of Social Security reform is discussed, Democrats should be asked the million-dollar question. All congressman should live under the same rules the rest of us do. I am certain Republicans would do so and a just as certain Democrats would not. The bottom line is Democrats want that money kept in the current Social Security plan so they can borrow against it with IOUs and spend it. The best thing for fiscal restraint would be the development of private accounts. We take ownership of our money and we keep them from spending it. Let’s hope they are forced to answer the question why they don’t want what they force us to have.