McConnell claims he never supported social security privatization

[applegrove]

McConnell claims he never supported social security privatization

by Jed Lewison at Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/29/1340045/-McConnell-claims-he-never-supported-Social-Security-privatization

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell last Thursday, boasting about having worked with George W. Bush in a failed effort to create private Social Security accounts—and complaining that Democrats refused to help:

“After Bush was re-elected in 2004 he wanted us to try to fix Social Security,” said McConnell. “I spent a year trying to get any Democrat in the Senate — even those most reasonable Democrat of all, Joe Lieberman – to help us.”

When asked if he would try the same thing as Senate Majority Leader, McConnell refused to answer, but he was nonetheless proud of his effort. But now that the election is one week closer and he's faced with attacks about his support for Social Security privatization from his opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes and her Democratic allies, McConnell is denying the whole thing:

"That's just one of the many fictions the Grimes campaign has been spinning. Obviously, preserving and protecting Social Security is the most important thing any of us can do," said McConnell.



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[safeinOhio]

1. Back then he did say he wanted to

preserve and protect SS by taking it out of the hands of a crooked government and put it in the hands of honest Wall Street stock brokers.