Being born prior to 1950 I'm selfishly glad that Social Security may not go away for those of us who didn't always have 501K's available (thanks to Dims being in office a lot of those years)....
I think it should definitely be changed, but it does need to take into consideration that if we had been able to invest the money we paid out year after year none of us pre-50's babies would give a whit about SS. We didn't have that option -- and is why I totally support George Bush in his plan to allow people to invest their SS dollars... may have to make it manditory or a lot of young will spend it rather than invest it...
So, yes, SS is socialist and that is the way the socialist Dims set it up and that is how they want to keep it and one more reason not to vote for anyone with a "D" ever, ever, ever...
But Tricky Ricky is proposing that we guarantee socialist insecurity to all born before 1950, WITHOUT a concommitant, equal and off-setting guarantee of personal accounts to those born after 1950. Is that fair? It's election year pandering to the grey vote....nothing more.
And how is he going to guarantee payments from a system that is insolvent by any standard or creative definition of the word? Simple.....by taxing the productive sector into oblivion. I've absolutely had it with his leftist slide and election year pandering.