If Bill Clinton jumped off a bridge...

You know, I've never understood this fascination with Clinton quotes. Just because Clinton made a statement regarding something, apparently all Democrats are supposed to bow down and believe it? Is that the way it is supposed to work?

Anyway, here's the quote, or rather, the pertinent part, found with some "in your face" attitude by Q and O:

Well one thing you could do is to give people one or two percent of the payroll tax, with the same options that Federal employees have with their retirement accounts; where you have three mutual funds that almost always perform as well or better than the market and a fourth option to buy government bonds, so you get the guaranteed social security return and a hundred percent safety just like you have with Social Security.

Yes, that would be one thing you could do. Another thing you could do is feed your dog quarters and hope he craps out dollars. But no one's going to support that one, are they? (Well, I guess if Bush proposes it, maybe...)

Just because you state that something may be a solution does not mean you endorse it as one.

And, for the record, here's Clinton leading up to that statement (my bold):

If we don't modify the tax cut to have more tax cuts now but we reinstate fiscal responsibility over the long run, we're going to be in real trouble there. So, what's our option? If you don't like privatizing Social Security and I don't like it very much, but you want to do something to try to increase the rate of return, what are your options?

Yeah, sounds like Bill's all for Bush's proposal, doesn't it?