Fellators!

The lovely “patriots” who brought you the Swift Boat Liars for Bush are at it again:

A New Target for Advisers to Swift Vets
By Glen Justice, February 21, 2005, The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 - Taking its cues from the success of last year's Swift boat veterans' campaign in the presidential race, a conservative lobbying organization has hired some of the same consultants to orchestrate attacks on one of President Bush's toughest opponents in the battle to overhaul Social Security.

The lobbying group, USA Next, which has poured millions of dollars into Republican policy battles, now says it plans to spend as much as $10 million on commercials and other tactics assailing AARP, the powerhouse lobby opposing the private investment accounts at the center of Mr. Bush's plan.

"They are the boulder in the middle of the highway to personal savings accounts," said Charlie Jarvis, president of USA Next and former deputy under secretary of the interior in the Reagan and first Bush administrations. "We will be the dynamite that removes them."

There’s a lot more at the link.

These guys are going to spend at least $10 million to push Dear Leader’s agenda against we “greedy” seniors. I’m sure we can expect the usual half-truths, innuendo, and out-right lies. What a lovely group of people.

It’s a shame that no one seems to remember that Social Security is supposed to be “insurance.” A guy named Barry Schwartz said, “Social Security was created as an insurance scheme, not a pension scheme. It was meant to provide a safety net, to protect the unlucky from immiseration in old age. The benefits we get are not payouts from accounts in which we have accumulated our own private stash. What we get is largely determined by what we earned, but we keep getting it even after we've taken out every penny we put in. And if we happen to die early, someone else reaps the benefits of our contributions.” What’s not to like?