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Wouldn't it be nice if it really were insurance, instead of wealth confiscation. If it were insurance you could shop around for the best rate, choose only the coverage you need, or opt not to buy it at all.

I wonder how much of that money went to "survivors" and to able-bodied "disabled". Around here it seemed that many of the NAFTA displaced workers who were on welfare suddenly switched over to SSDI. Many don't seem disabled except that they never learned English so apparently can't find jobs --- but they say they have "stress" as a mental disability.

>or opt not to buy it at all.

The problem with opting out of Social Security is that I would be sure I provided for my future and I will assume that you would too. But what would we do with those who opted for a Cadillac Escalade instead? When they got to retirement age and started screaming that they could no longer do the work they once did, who would support them? You and me, that's who.

This whole social security system stinks and it needs to be fixed but we can't fix it by telling those of us who have been trapped in it for 20 or 30 years that they are not going to get what has been taken from them, plus interest.

The democRATS will scream a blue streak about this but they are liars. I might trust a Republican administration to find the tax cuts elsewhere but I would never trust the RATS to fix anything.