They should listed to Newt.
EXCLUSIVE from NEWT GINGRICH: Personal Accounts, Period
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380345/posts
The problem with the message coming from Washington is that all the proposed "solutions" to fix Social Security solve Washington's problems not the workers'. The focus needs to be on solving the workers' problem, which is that Social Security pays too little, not too much.
The truth is that not only have all Social Security surpluses to date been spent on other things, the politicians in Washington want to go right along spending all future surpluses.
Raising taxes, as even some Republicans have proposed, will provide Washington only more money to spend. Since not one dime to date has been set aside to protect Social Security, why would anyone think that would ever happen in the future? Raising taxes would only mask the problem, allowing Washington to continue to raid the surpluses and leave Social Security even worse off.
Personal accounts owned by workers with higher benefits is the only way to ensure that money meant for retirement will not be spent. With large personal accounts, even low- and moderate-income workers will accumulate hundreds of thousands of dollars by retirement and will be able to leave a financial legacy to their children or other heirs. Personal accounts offer workers far greater personal choice, ownership and control than the current system.
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