Wednesday night political

"Marco Rubio says Social Security and Medicare made Americans weak"

From Daily Kos. He's such an asshole. I've been paying into Social Security all my working life and expect to get something out of it. I think most people do.

From Kos:

And if Marco Rubio's grandfather had known about those [government] programs, and how they were weakening us as a people, he'd never have fled to America from Fidel Castro's Cuba. . . .

See TPM here.

Of course, one might argue that the reason welfare programs were created -- with great popular demand -- was precisely because in all too many cases "communities," "families," and "churches" weren't doing an adequate job.

(I wouldn't really call Social Security "welfare." It's not a government handout - rather, it's funded by payroll deductions.)

Bad-mouthing Social Security may not be such a smart thing to do for Marco's political future.