Privatizing Social Security. Biden's appointment of Andrew Biggs must be rejected.
One more Biden disaster.
It doesn’t surprise me that most Democrats don’t want Joe Biden to run for President again.
He’s a disaster.
I’ve written often on his push to privatize Medicare, requiring all recipients to be enrolled in a Medicare Advantage-like program with or without our consent.
Or his nomination of Andrew Biggs to the Social Security Advisory Board.
The board is a bipartisan independent agency established in 1994 to advise the president, the Congress, and the commissioner of Social Security on issues of Social Security policy or administration.
Biden is required to fill an empty Republican seat.
But Biggs isn’t just a Republican.
He’s a privatizing, American Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute opponent of Social Security.
He’s Biden’s worst possible choice.
He could have chosen another Republican. Or he could have left the seat vacant.
Instead he picked Biggs.
Biggs calls Social Security too generous to retirees.
Biggs argues that state and local employees are significantly overpaid.
In other words, Biggs is a right-wing snake oil salesman when it comes to promised retirement benefits.
This choice seems irrational. What would motivate President Biden to make such an ill-advised appointment?