[Washi]

Thanks. I don't like posting bogus information, but I didn't think to look to (or trust) the Social Security Administration for verification of the facts on this one.

Even though the second half of the email is mostly true...the misinformation in the first half is distracting.

[knarf]

I've come across this before and a friend pointed me to snopes.

I don't really care how we got here so much as what can I do now that we ARE here.

I WANT to think privatizing SS is a good idea, but many voices here in FR discourage that.

Older folks that worked all their life and "contributed" to a "retirement/savings plan" would most surely do what was needed to protect and secure that system, ala investing in whatever system had been decided on.

The alternative seems to be the inevitable ... let SS (as we understand and know it) die, and have a more overt socialist system of care that will include ALL people ... which is worse than taking FICA by law and using it for research into the mating habits of the Lower Slobovian SHMOO ... (Which we all know is the epitome of Socialism)