Ferguson is a Social Security Bamboozler

by: jfc521

Sat Oct 28, 2006 at 12:01:00 PM EDT

The race for Congress ran through Cranford last week, as Republican Mike Ferguson, the incumbent in New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District, and Democratic challenger Linda Stender, a state assemblywoman from Union County, met with residents of the Cranford Senior Housing complex.

Appearing separately before the seniors, Stender and Ferguson fielded pre-selected questions on topics such as Social Security, stem cell research and the war in Iraq...

On Social Security, both candidates are against privatization and agreed that benefits to current recipients should not and will not be changed.

Well, do you remember March 4, 2005?  On that day, Ferguson stood beside George W. Bush at the Westfield Armory during Bush's Social Security Bamboozlepalooza Tour.  Mike might say that he is against privatization, but if you pressed him, he would probably start talking about personal accounts or individual accounts - which are just other ways of saying privatization.  According to TPM blogger Josh Marshall, Ferguson favors Social Security privatization and phase-out, and he has supported the Bush scheme for years.  Ferguson is trying to fool voters with semantics, and he is being dishonest.