At least your children could inherit your money when you die. How stupid of the previous generation to allow the government to claim themselves the beneficiary of SS accounts! The men on my mother's side of the family all died within a few months of their 65th birthdays, and the government inherited all the money they put in during years of paying in...money their families certainly needed and could have spent much more wisely. I'll trust Wall St. any day over Capitol Hill.
"The men on my mother's side of the family all died within a few months of their 65th birthdays, and the government inherited all the money they put in during years of paying in...money their families certainly needed"
Karl Rove should be beating the Dems over the head with the Bob Byrd death windfall. Black males (Dem base)have a 6 year shorter life expectancy than white males and get systematically punished under the current system.