Scrimp and save your own retirement funds. 401(k), Roth, whatever. Gold and silver might be good ideas, too, considering the way our government is handling our currency, although a friend told me recently that if I was invested in gold, I should sell about half of it.
When SS runs out, it’s gonna be a world of hurt. Hopefully, government will get rid of the FICA tax at that time, but I’m probably hoping for too much.
Well right after being reelected in 2004, Bush tried to fix social security and Democrats and the corrupt MSM screamed like stuck pigs.
PING!
(And this is a Ponzi scheme that’s not even voluntary!)
It’s insane to have government running any entitlement program. SS is proof. Medicare, medicaid, proof. VA Hospitals, proof.
Yes, the proof is in. And the dems are hell bent in destroying themselves to get government to run our healthcare.
Keep the powder dry.
And the HITS just keep on coming! How ‘bout that “hope and change”?
WELL THE ONLY OBVIOUS SOLUTION IS TO TAX THE RICH. THAT ALWAYS WORKS.
The solution is obvious: spend more money on it.
Just wait until your father comes home. You are in for the beating of your life.
It is going to be one ugly sight when millions of retirees get their walkers and march on Versailles. Osama bin Laden has a better chance of hiding than the politicians who mess with the seniors.
ummm.... seems to me that Social security going down the tubes is precisely why they have been so crazy about passing the health care bill.... cause it pretty much re-defines social security into a much larger program.
Now there’s a big surprise. I heard talk about the increasingly difficult demographics of social security when I was doing adult foster care 30 years ago - and we and our elected officials have done nothing since.
Hey baby boomers and seniors who voted for Obama - Atlas shrugged - enjoy.
You voted for a Kenyan muslim marxist and anyone with an IQ above 70 who has some money or a business - shrugged, laid people off and hunkered down.
You reap what you sew.
Social security needs to be abolished immediatly. It’s unfortunate for those who contributed and won’t get it or are currently collecting and will loose it overnight, but it’s a bad program that never should have existed in the first place.
In 20 years nobody will miss it and the country will be better off.
What? When did this happen? /s
Was going to wait 4 years (to age 66) before taking SS, but I wonder if it’s going to be there at all in 4 years.
Well, crap. All you useless bureaucrats who worked in government and are collecting your golden parachutes - that’s ending real soon. Prepare to move into cardboard boxes under the bridge. And yeh, we have more guns than you do and we’re better shots. Bye-bye.
Articles like this one, as insightful as it is, should help give the Dims cover to propose “Retirement Reform™”. I can hardly wait to see what that 2,000+ page monstrosity will look like. At least Bush’s attempt to fix the problem leaned towards a private solution. The Dims obviously have something else in mind...