Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney’s newly picked running
mate, Paul Ryan, is on the forefront of efforts to dismantle Social
Security by putting seniors’ savings into risky Wall Street investments.
Over the years, Ryan has not only pushed for privatizing Social
Security, but also dismantling Medicare and slashing funding for
Medicaid. In the Republican response to President Obama’s 2011 State of
the Union address, Ryan defended cutbacks on social spending. "We’re in a
moment where if government’s growth is left unchecked and unchallenged,
America’s best century will be considered our past century," Ryan said.
"This is a future in which we will transform our social safety net into
a hammock, which lulls able-bodied people into lives of complacency and
dependency." For more, we speak with two experts on Social Security:
independent journalist Eric Laursen, author of the book "The People’s
Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan," and
Heather McGhee, vice president of policy and outreach at the progressive
policy group Demos and co-author of a chapter on retirement insecurity
in the book "Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America
and its Poisonous Consequences."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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