"I had a look at the American Social Security system a while back and I've got to admit I was shocked at the scale of the problem/debt you guys are looking at."
Dundee,
If a private corporation were running the kind of scam that our federal government is calling a social security retirement plan, the corporate officers would be doing 25 to life at levenworth federal pen in maximum security. It's a ponzi scheme and anyone with even minimal financial skills knows it. Like so many other serious subjects, the politcos don't give a ship about the common good, only about their own re-election. President Bush is too good for this Country. If he were as small minded as his opposition, he would just resign and go back to Texas. I pray to God that he doesn't, but I wouldn't blame him if he did.
If he's so good for this country, after reading this info why in the hell does he insist on making illegals eligible for SS.......even though many of them will not even pay into the system for a period anywhere near what an American has been forced to do?