Lying about Social Security

Why can't Democrats tell the truth? Check out this lie from Senator Mikulski at a rally put together by four Democratic senators:

"None of us can afford to sit on our bottoms," Mikulski told the enthusiastic and largely gray-haired audience that filled Town Hall to overflowing. "We've got to organize and mobilize and stop George Bush's radical plan to privatize Social Security. He wants to take a guaranteed benefit and turn it into a gamble."

As anyone should know, she has it exactly backward. Benefits in the current system are NOT guaranteed. No one has any ownership interest in any benefit from social security. Private accounts, on the other hand, would be owned and not subject to the whims of a future Congress.