Herman Cain Compares Social Security To Slavery #P2 #TCOT #CONSERVATIVESAREASSHOLES

When it comes to Social Security, the pugilistic presidential contender Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) is normally the one attracting all the attention. After all, he called the program all sorts of names: A "Ponzi scheme," a "monstrous lie," and unconstitutional. But the new GOP front runner — pizza mogul Herman Cain — seems eager to challenge Perry's title as the world heavyweight champion fear-monger on the nation's most successful economic program.

From 2005 to 2010, Cain wrote weekly commentary for his company The New Voice, Inc. He dedicated a few of his columns to register full support for President George W. Bush's disastrous idea to privatize Social Security. Viewing Social Security as "immoral" and "oppressive," he blasted Democrats for supporting "involuntary servitude" of African Americans through the Social Security and payroll tax system. From one column entitled, "Ownerships: An Unalienable Right":

The 70-year-old Social Security structure and the 92-year-old income tax code thwart the natural, individual motivation of citizens to use their God-given talents to pursue happiness and their respective dreams. Any program that undermines an individual's liberty to create ownership is, then, by its very nature, immoral. It took our nation nearly 250 years to end slavery and live up to the self-evident truth that all men are created equal. It should not take us another 250 years to cease the involuntary negative return most working people receive from Social Security, or the involuntary servitude imposed by the oppressive income tax code.

In another column entitled "Separate Water Fountains," Cain said the Social Security system "by its very nature discriminates against black men and women." With their "unconscionable" refusal to implement private accounts, Democratic "so-called black leaders" want to see "the next generation of Blacks remain in economic slavery on the Democratic plantation":

It is now evident that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not apply to the Social Security system. Due to the rising retirement age, differences in life expectancy between Blacks and Whites, and mandatory payroll tax deductions, the system by its very nature discriminates against black men and women.[...]

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/21/349901/herman-cain-compares-social-security-to-slavery/