[anniegetyourgun]

$11,000/year for an 70-yr old widow with an unwed pregnant teenage granddaughter living with her. Poverty line is $12,353 for this scenario (U.S. Census Bureau). That's compassion? About as compassionate as giving the homeless drunk a cardboard box to sleep in.

Just think what her deceased husband could have done with his hard-earned income over his decades of work if he had been able to take those SS taxes and invest them in the company pension plan.

Gad, I wish the would "let my people go" from this daily-looted ponzi scheme.

[Agnes Heep]

Just think what her deceased husband could have done with his hard-earned income over his decades of work if he had been able to take those SS taxes and invest them in the company pension plan.

It's like cutting off a healthy leg and replacing it with a cheap prosthesis.

[GeronL]

If social security had been a private system with its own 'banks', most seniors would have retured millionaires. Why would a liberal want that?? =o)

[GeronL]

Just think what her deceased husband could have done with his hard-earned income over his decades of work if he had been able to take those SS taxes and invest them in the company pension plan

Company plan or a competing 'pension bank'. Companies have been known to skim off retirement accounts, imagine competing pension banks whose interest is in..well.. higher interest for accounts.