@TinyChi Nah, Don’t think so. Many of them are old guys. :-)
@KNOWITALL What’s so terrible about how Social Security is run. Works fine for me. And it’s been up and running well now for 76 years. How many other government programs can you name that can boast as much?
@rojo Well, it does have the word social in it. But then so does the antisocial personality disorder that gives us real people like the fictional Gordon “Greed is good” Gekko.
@Pachyderm_In_The_Room It’s true that the old elites already have many millions slaked away and are probably correct in their confidence that “I’ve got mine…”
@dabbler It certainly rang true with me. Thanks.
@ragingloli So it would seem.
@Jaxk What? The Republican party has hated Social Security from the day it was enacted in 1935. They have tried to repeal it, and when that proved impossible, they have tried again and again to privatize it.
“While no changes should adversely affect any current or near-retiree, comprehensive reform should address our society’s remarkable medical advances in longevity and allow younger workers the option of creating their own personal investment accounts as supplements to the system. Younger Americans have lost all faith in the Social Security system, which is understandable when they read the non- partisan actuary’s reports about its future funding status. Born in an old industrial era beyond the memory of most Americans, it is long overdue for major change, not just another legislative stopgap that postpones a day of reckoning. To restore public trust in the system, Republicans are committed to setting it on a sound fiscal basis that will give workers control over, and a sound return on, their investments. The sooner we act, the sooner those close to retirement can be reassured of their benefits and younger workers can take responsibility for planning their own retirement decades from now.”
Source: 2012 Republican Party Platform
@Imadethisupwithnoforethought They want it privatized, because then the cash is in the private banking system and stocks,and thus available to them, just as the blogger says.