Social Security - your thoughts?

[rekinhavoc]

Would say that isn't fair. Few if any understood what a Ponzi scheme it was and by sending out annual "statements" about their account, the big lie by the government made it seem like a savings account of sorts. My granddaddy knew how to raise pigs and grow cotton. If FDR told him he could pay in for his retirement, then so be it.

It has been the third rail of politics for a long time. No one wants to deal with it head on. Any politician who suggests something is instantaneously attacked by the other side. W actually had a good idea to phase it out and was blasted by Democrats.

My stepmother paid into it since she was 15 and it failed her. I had a letter from her doctor saying she would never be gainfully employed again. They called me 3 days after she died to deny her disability claim (2nd attempt).

 

[LouderVol]

Would say that isn't fair. Few if any understood what a Ponzi scheme it was and by sending out annual "statements" about their account, the big lie by the government made it seem like a savings account of sorts. My granddaddy knew how to raise pigs and grow cotton. If FDR told him he could pay in for his retirement, then so be it.

It has been the third rail of politics for a long time. No one wants to deal with it head on. Any politician who suggests something is instantaneously attacked by the other side. W actually had a good idea to phase it out and was blasted by Democrats.

their deniability ends when it involves the next generation. its one thing if they are they victim, but once they start being enriched by the scheme they can't claim the same victimhood.