Viewed nearly unanimously on the right as pretty much the best guy since Jesus, Ronald Reagan is held in extremely high esteem by conservatives. Sometimes, though, this interferes with the Republican Party’s current goals, especially as they try to shrink Social Security under the guise of saving money. The following video and quote has been circulating quite a bit around Facebook recently, and it’s our hope that many of you will share this article as well to illustrate the current hypocrisy of the Republican Party.





Here’s the video:

Transcript:

“Social Security, let’s lay it to rest once and for all; I told you, never would I do such a thing. But I tell you also now, Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Social Security is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer and employee. If you reduced the outgo of Social Security, that money would not go into the general fund to reduce the deficit. It would go into the Social Security trust fund. So Social Security has nothing to do with balancing a budget or erasing or lowering the deficit.”

Next time a conservative tries to tell you that Social Security is an entitlement program that needs to be cut, direct them to this video. Maybe they’ll accept some logic if it comes from one of their own.

While we’re at it, let’s remind President Barack Obama and congressional Democratic Party members that we don’t support cuts to Social Security under any circumstances; Social Security being on the table when it comes to budget cuts doesn’t even make sense, as explained by President Reagan in the above example.

It’s not even that the liberal side is right when it comes to the Social Security debate. It’s that the debate should never have happened, because the other side doesn’t even have an arguable case.