[goldstategop]

The President didn't say that. What the President say is NO ONE who has worked hard all their lives should forced to live in poverty. And he stood firm on the subject of personal account, in allowing American workers to own their own assets and pass it on to their heirs. He observed that members of Congress have a personal account style program for themselves and their families. As he stated succinctly, if its good enough for members of Congress, its good enough for the American people. The point of Social Security reform should be to allow Americans to enjoy their retirement with dignity and peace of mind. To say the President proposed American retirees should live in poverty is a deeply offensive notion. Not even the New York Times made this charge.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Brilliant]

Fine, if that's what the proposal says, I have no problem with it, but as I understand, he wants to index benefits according to what you earned during your working years, and those earning less will receive more. That was not the "promise" of social security, and it's too late to do the bait and switch.

[HankReardon]

If someone who works hard all his life lives in poverty when they retire they made some really bad choices!
If some people, I know them, were to take the money they spend every week on cigarettes, lottery tickets, knick knacks, cell phones, extra cable tv packages, vacations, the list could go on and INVESTED this money throughout their working lives they would be well off. It's about choices! This is America, the greatest nation the world has ever known, anyone that works all their lives here and is still poor, I have absolutely no pity for them and I for one would never deny them their well deserved consequences.