Social Security was established for the people of the US; all other "civilized" countries have this type of insurance for their aged. Privatizing Social Security will enrich the wealthy and further impoverish the poor. That's not America!
I demand that the Congress of the United States to not privatize social security benefits in any form including taking a percentage of the social security tax and placing it in private accounts. People can already create their own pensions with money after taxes in the private sector.
Do not change Social Security.Work to make minor changes to improve the existing strucutre. Don't leave those depending on this income out in the cold and those who would receive it without the security it was set up to give!
At a time when the citizens of the nation have had a small "peek" at the greed & misrepresentations of those "leaders" of corporate America.. including the financial & banking sectors.. "our" leaders in Washington want us to give them more unregulated opportunities at controlling our futures! Privatizing is to SS what the disgraceful prescription bill is to Medicare. The same people will benefit.. not the citizens!
This is a big gift to Wall Street and will ensure that our kids will not have this minimal protection as they become older. This system is not in crisis. It is solvent till the middle of the century and beyond.
Say No to social security privitization! The claim that social security is in crisis is a neoconservative red herring. See the analyses by many respected economists, including Paul Krugman, and their suggestions for sensible social security reforms. George Bush is uninterested in reform. Instead, he arrogantly plans to undo one of the greatest historical achievements of a Democrat--Roosevelt's New Deal, which has helped protect America's neediest for decades. His aim is political, not practical, and it is certainly neither ethical nor moral.
Changes in policy should be designed to move America and its people forward - and should be fiscally responsible.
In the last four years, Congress and the White House have proven time and again that they are fiscally irresponsible and that the American people are secondary.
This needs to change before the damage is irreversible.
Once again... more legislation to benefit the wealthy. THANKS FOR LOOKING OUT, GW
And as for social security - it isn't in peril as we are made to believe. Just ask the experts. This is another gross exaggeration to scare the American public. (ie - taking away civil liberties to "protect" us)
As a Baby Boomer and part of the 'sandwich' generation with both elderly parents and children to support we cannot let Bush/Cheny get away with yet another one of their idiotic manuvers.
Privatization is the new buzzword - but it makes absolutely NO SENSE. It is contrary to the whole notion of what Social Security is for. It is completely ABSURD!
Please keep social security the way it is! At least with social security the way it is now we know that someone on social security is getting the money. But if it is made to be privatized then so many people could loose their hard earned money in the stock market all because of how risky it is to put money into it! (I hope I made some sense) The older we get the more we depend on these programs to be there for us! It should be kept there where it belongs! That is what it was established for, not to gamble with!!!!!
I am appaled at the fiscal irresponsability of this administration. I no longer trust it to make any dicisions reguarding finances except for those that benifit their wealthy friends. Our country has been bankrupt by the president, do not let the privitization of SS happen. It will only help the wealthy investors of the stock market, by putting our monbey in a place where they can get it from us. What happens if (as it often does) the money is lost in the market. Does that mean whoever lost it is out of luck and will be homeless and starving due to no income? Will there be a welfare given to those who didn't know enough or were just plain unlucky enough to loose their retirement money. If you fix anything fix the tax cuts, charge the wealthy with paying their fair share, stop running up out national debt and bankrupting our economy while expecting us to believe that a new better deal for SS is on the menue.
Ya gotta be kidding....now you want to rape and pillage the Social Security System? Wasn't it enough that you made the poor poorer, the rich richer, and those who are REALLY destitute more so? And, now, you want to hock the future because the bankers aren't rich enough?
Man. What Schmucks we have in Congress......
stop social security privatization, increase the minimum wage,and repeal the faulty Republican prescription drug benefit and replace it with a simple 80 percent coverage of medication under Medicare Part B.
Please stop this President from any privitization of the Social Security program. The fiscal mismanagement of this President is one for the record books. Hands off of my Social Security!
While I realize there are many differing opinions on every subject under the sun I think the high road is always the best road. Social Security is solvent and will be for many more decades. During that time the economy will grow providing we return to sane trade policies that protect the general population and not just the wealthy elite. The Presidents proposals appear to me to be a dangerous shell game. The designers of the game wins, everyone else looses. Don't fix what's not broken, which leads me to the subject of a living wage. Order one of your aides to go out and live on the minimum wage for one full year. Start them out with only enough money to make a deposit on an apartment. Then see if you think the minimum wage should be a little higher.
the attempt to privatize social security is an attempt by the far right to undo the social programs that keep our country from becoming a third world country divided between rich and poor.
A raise in the minimum wage is long overdue, the social securty program works, there is no impending crisis: it should be left as is, rather than privatized, and -the $88,000 cap on taxable income for s.s. FICA should definitely be removed.
