Tooting my own horn.
Just for a moment, honest, and then I’ll put it away. —See, Atrios links to a report over at There is No Crisis which shows our favorite propagandistas, USA Next, were until recently nothing more than a spam farm that harvested the mailing addresses of guillible donors and plowed any funds raised thereby back into the charitable endeavor of raising funds. “Is the privatization scheme just a junk mail operation?” asks the headline.
Why, yes. Yes, it is. I’d like it noted, for the record, that this humble blog, not usually known for its policy prognostications, nailed this particular pelt to the wall back in December.
No, the ultimate argument against mandatory private retirement accounts is this: do you have any idea how much more junk mail you’ll be getting? From multinational financial corporations and fly-by-night penny-stock–pimping quasi-firms? Lurid brochures and badly written come-ons, envelopes tricked up to look like overnight deliveries with that stupid handwriting font misspelling your name in the corner, Kipp, I thought you would appreciate a look at this, Mr. J.K. Manly, you could be making thirteen percent, Ms. Beezel Lee, have you thought about your retirement account? Dire red-inked envelopes with bold block letters RE: YOUR RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS IMPORTANT OPEN IMMEDIATELY, anonymous cheap white envelopes hoping to sneak past your first brute-force Bayesian filter, your own goddamn bank shoving ten-page slick-papered prospectuses financed by your ATM fees through your mail slot every week or so, just because they can.
Spread the word, if you’re so inclined.
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