"If the government invested in companies through SS, it would eventually have major, or even controlling interests in many corporations, including media corporations. So, pension privatization would ultimately lead to government control of private industry and media. Nominally, the economic interests would be held by individual accounts, but the voting would be done by government SS Fund trustees.">
Please don't give them any ideas. That's the slow lane to a fascist, totalitarian state sort, of like Jasper Fforde's Golieth Corporation in his books.