I already know you're a "True Believer" and a genuine socialist, you don't really need to reinforce the point.

But look, 'privatize' is simply not what you seem to think it is. I could privatize Social Security simply by having the trust fund placed in the hands of a corporation in which there was a specific charter banning them from buying pretty much anything other than gold or US bonds and having the CEO and board selected by the 'shareholders', it's then private, with no effective change. Going apeshit with this 'dead bodies clogging the streets' garbage is even more juvenile then when someone flips out about the idea that some township might zone itself such that those in certain residential districts would be required to use the 'socialist' municipal garbage, sewer, and water services.

"Privatize" does not automatically equal throwing people to wolves, we wouldn't need to privatize anything were that the goal, and it isn't, the GOP is not some comic opera group of greed-mongers ripped from some cheesy movie. We want a safety net that 1) Is stable and fiscally sound 2) gives people choices 3) doesn't breed dependency and 4) doesn't punish or vilify success. I don't see what is wrong with, say, allowing people 4 options to choose from and being allowed to switch out with little penalty. I'd be a hell of a lot happier if I got to pick from, say, an account with Wells Fargo that stored my cash in gold ingots in some vault somewhere or an 'insurance' plan that stipulated I'd receive X amount a month once I was no longer able to work by dint of age or injury, or maybe could pick both, with the gov't having no more role than to stipulate what the minimum I had to dump in was and maybe doing some baseline amount per citizen and/or matching funds. Don't know why that couldn't been mostly farmed out to private companies and simply monitored... the city doesn't have to own the garbage trucks to do garbage pickup, they can hire a company to do it, that's what 'privatize' means. There's little reason not to privatize something where a natural monopoly doesn't exist, and pensions and SS certainly aren't a natural monopoly, and even natural monopolies often benefit from privatization. Not that that will sway you, because I don't think you actually believe anything is better off in private hands.