[Disambiguator]

It's interesting how this issue isn't getting much airplay in the *ahem* "mainstream" media, but it obviously has a lot of traction with the public.

[Cicero]

There's no guarantee that investments will do well in the future, but it's likely they will. I have paid substantial amounts into social security all my life and will get very little back. I paid comparable amounts into TIAA-CREF, and I will get back ten or maybe twenty times the return (if I sat down and did the numbers I could be more exact). But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that social security is a lousy deal for everyone but the minimal recipients who barely paid in enough to qualify.

[RetiredArmy]

Naw, this can't be right. AARP says no one wants private SS. Didn't this poll ask the 80 & 90 year olds who think that Bush is gonna take away their checks? Like he said the other day, people have been peddling the lie now for 5 years that he was going to take away old folks checks, and it has been five years an no one has had a check taken away. God bless my 87 year old mother, but she believes this also. She also thought Klinton was pushed to admit something he did not do. Did I happen to mention that I thought way back in 1965 that my mother had lost her mind, when I was a teenager, and she was telling me all the rules. It still appears to not have aged well either. :>)

[Cobra64]

My two children, 25 & 27 are all for it. They'd put ALL of their payroll TAXES in Vanguard or Fidelity mutual funds. My wife and I have >340k in SS, and we know we'll never see a dime due to the interest income from our PRIVATE investment accounts. If we could have had the opportunity to have invested ithat amount in the PRIVATE sector, we'd have a few million more "in the bank."

SS sucks.

[k2blader]

Anti-greedy geezer bump.

[Gardener]

I don't have a problem with private accounts as long as I get to choose how it's invested and the government doesn't have control of the money. I also don't believe that private accounts are going to save social security and that a revamping of the whole system is the only cure. I would personally like to have the option of opting out of the primary ss account to invest all of those taxes in a private account.

I am not taking ss as it stands now into account when figuring my retirement plans. If I have it great, it's just icing.

[CyberAnt]

Which further proves how out of touch the dems are when Pelosi says that they won't even come to the table until private accounts are removed.

For being so poll driven .. this amazes me about the dems .. because these polls showing 66% approve of private accounts - the dems should be jumping on this - it could be a winning issue for them.

But .. alas .. they are not interested in doing anything which might get the President any points. They would rather be a pain in the behind.