[OESY]

Michael Tanner is director of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice (socialsecurity.org).

[Piquaboy]

The rats will do everything they can to prevent our fixing of Social Security. Then they would not have anything to scare us old geezers about every election. Even though it did not work for them this time, they just never learn.

[sierrahome]

Nothing has furthered the Democrats ability to get America on the Gravy Train like Social Security in its present form.

[Smartaleck]

First things first.

LBJ and the Dems took SS out of the separate budget category and dumped the money into the "general funds."

Why? LBJ didn't have the bucks to fund the Nam war so he covered this deficit by adding SS monies to the general funds.

If SS is to survive, it must be moved back to where it was originally and allowed to stand on it's own as a self funding entity and the money not used to fund other aspects of gov't..

This is a major part of the whole "smoke and mirrors" process that deceives the public. The Republican's are just as bad as the Democrats on this as it allows them to also disguise where the "peoples" money is being used. IMHO