Problem was republicans weren't ready for the offensive democrats would mount against it. Bush should have been more aggresive and also demanded a vote on the issue to see where people stood then worked from there.
Not to say there isn't fear out there, because a lot of people believed the promises the guv'mint told them and didn't set much aside. A lot of others, like myself, did save.
I think SS is a Ponzi scheme. I just don't know what to do about it so that we don't wind up hurting the country with the way we deal with it. Like I say, phased privitization is probably an idea we should be discussing.
that's because of people like me, who would have lost out of traditional SS because I would be under that 55 yr threshold they were talking about...my husband would miss it too....
here's the deal...I am a traditional wife who has worked part-time practically my whole life in a sector that does not give out pensions or medical retirement benefits....I always relied on my husband's work to provide that.....
well, his pension and our future was stolen thru a phoney baloney bankruptcy, so we are both stuck and neither of us can do without SS when we get to that age....
if your a govt worker like a teacher or postal clerk, you have nothing to fear...you can sit back and pull in your big bucks...
the rest of us underlings can not and NEED the Ss money to which we certainly have worked for.......