Tortured Logic #2

I can see that the lead-up to the Republican primary is going to be a field day for tortured logic. So I'm starting a numbered thread here -- and the first one goes retroactively to Newt for his saying it's Obama's fault that he (Newt) flipflopped about Libya (see Newt #11, Sat. 3/26). The second dubious honor goes to Rick Santorum.

Back in 2003, when Sartorum was a senator from Pennsylvania, he's the one who voiced his concern about the Supreme Court's overturning the Texas sodomy law, saying that the state should be able to regulate sexual behavior, including homosexuality, just as it does adultery, polygamy, child molestation, incest, sodomy, and zoophilia (bestiality). In a later comment, he referred to the latter as "man on dog" sex -- which led to no end of late night comedian jokes. Yes, that Santorum. He's maybe running for president.

So, here's his looney statement:

Abortion is the cause of Social Security's problems.

And here's his tortured logic: Social Security is in financial trouble because there aren't enough workers to support the retirees. And why is that? Because of our "abortion culture." We just don't make enough people to support our old folks. We need more people.

But, Rick . . . unless people have jobs, they don't pay into Social Security. Just making more people won't solve the problem of Social Security if they can't find jobs. So you had better solve that problem first -- got any ideas? I mean, other than your fixation on the flat tax, which of course shifts more of the tax burden onto the lower income groups (why else would Republicans be the ones pushing it?) and IMHO simply makes it all worse. Got any other ideas?

Ralph