[mission9]

If you really understood what a theft of meager earnings for the poorest people in our society that Social Security represents, then you would be shouting in the streets to end Social Security NOW! If just 3% of income (not 12%)-$375.00 were consistently deposited into a Mutual fund that tracks the S&P 500 for 58 years, then even a minimum-wage earner could retire a millionaire.
Instead, the Government operates this Ponzi scheme, that would send any body else who proposed it to prison. Stop supporting the political gravy train.
Maybe that you just don't care about the least important people in society, but I am talking about you. Will you retire more than a millionaire? You could, if you had just done as I, and the president, suggest. You should really be upset that this amount of your paycheck has not been invested for you. It has been paid out, and borrowed away.

[DSHambone]

Congresswoman Brown-Waite represents the highest number of SS recipients in the Nation - I am typing this real slow because apparently your reading comprehension is also slow. In order for her to support the President, she has to stay in office. The President is asking her to support a plan that isn't a plan yet. So how can she start the education process for her constituency without a curriculum.

Private accounts are great... nifty idea .... 10 years too late for me and 30 years too late for someone filing for SS tomorrow. So, since SS is part of their retirement plan and will have to play a part in my retirement planning, how do we accomplish this?? What is the entire vision of the President and what are the short term and long term costs? SS is a Ponzi scheme ... but too many have had it foisted upon them and we have to address that issue as well as promote the private accounts.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Mission9, you are absolutely correct. Presindetn Bush's plan will greatly increase those SS payments to a much higher dividend.

[GOP_1900AD]

Personally, I would vote for, help fund, and campaign for anyone willing to phase out Social Security. It could indeed be done, without harming anyone.