[A Balrog of Morgoth]

I don't think that you are supposed to post NYTimes articles, in their entirety, here. Something about a lawsuit....

[Jaysun]

But there is a strong argument, which the agency acknowledges as a possibility, that the system is solvent as is.

No there isn't. SS will not "work", it's mathematically impossible. Let the idiots argue otherwise. The best way to end SS is to leave it as is.

[Jim Robinson]

"...it invests in U.S. Treasuries"

What a bunch of gobbledygook. All in the article above to admit that there is no trust fund and it's really nothing but one giant socialist Ponzi scheme.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Figures. Lowenstein was Buffett's biographer, and shares his 'socialism for the little people' idealsm

Conservative economists say the figure is irrelevant: if Social Security didn't exist, people would save more. This may be true of economists, but what about the rest of us?

No...we're all too stupid. We need government to do it for us! Say, I need the government to mow my lawn properly and keep my weight down, too. Can they send someone right over?

The argument illustrates the ideological agenda of those who favor privatization: they want to change people's behavior.

This lack of argument illustrates the ideological agenda of those who favor federal Ponzi schemes: they want to redistribute wealth from the haves to the stupid.