Biden picks opponent of Social Security to oversee Social Security.

Andrew Biggs calls us greedy Americans.

It’s almost as if Biden wants to lose the midterms and hand 2024 over to Trump or a Trump clone.

His plan for Medicare, to move recipients all to a privatized system by the end of the decade, is sure to alienate senior voters like me. He only got 48% of us last time.

Now he has appointed Andrew Biggs to the board that oversees the Social Security System.

Who is Andrew Biggs?

To start, he is a Fellow at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute think tank.

Then, he pretty much is against Social Security and thinks those of us who have worked our entire lives are greedy entitlement seekers.

For years, Biggs has been a vocal critic of expanded Social Security and workers’ right to a secure, stable retirement free from the vagaries of the stock market. He has dismissed the retirement crisis as a non-issue and as recently as 2020 blamed problems with the Social Security system on “older Americans’ game of chicken.” And two decades ago, Biggs worked on a Bush administration commission that pushed to privatize Social Security. (The Lever)

Writing in Forbes in March of 2020, Biggs said, “I don’t generally buy into the “greedy-geezer” narrative when it comes to entitlement reform. And yet it’s hard to find a flattering description for a generation that demands to receive Social Security benefits that it refused to pay for.”

It is true that the seat on the bipartisan board was a Republican seat.

But Biden didn’t have to fill it with a Republican that opposes the very program they are supposed to oversee.

He didn’t have to fill it at all. He could have left the position empty.

Instead he picked the worst possible choice.

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