Fred Thompson just got done insisting that his plan to reduce the amount of Social Security benefits that will be available to Americans currently putting money into Social Security plans won’t be a cut to Social Security benefits.
Do the math on that one. Thompson says that if the government come up with a plan to pay people less in Social Security benefits, their benefits won’t be cut.
How can Fred Thompson explain such a nonsense position? He said, with a straight face, that the reduction in the amount that the government provides to working Americans in Social Security won’t be a cut because, instead, the government will just give working Americans less in Social Security benefits than what they had been promised when they had money taken out of their paychecks all these years.
See, Fred Thompson says, it’s not a cut when the government breaks a promise for certain benefits in return for a paycheck deduction. It’s just a broken promise not to cut the benefits.
I couldn’t make this nonsense up.
