[Zionist Conspirator]

"well,that may be true but the RAT Party gives me my social security checks".

Bless her heart! She can't help it, she's old. ;o)

I'm sure there are a lot of folks her age who think that. After all, it WAS FDR who got Social Security going.

It's heartbreaking to me that so many people of such an advanced age, who can remember a time of relative sanity in this country, are willing to give their blessing to the Revolution for a little money.

Don't get me wrong; I'm no social Darwinist or Smithian fundamentalist, and conservatives can be dense when it comes to putting moral issues ahead of economic ones--but to go along with everything liberalism stands for today because of money? Sad, sad, sad.

[SuziQ]

I believe the biggest problem of the older folks is that they are scared to death of being left to die in poverty. They look at the Democrats as the ones who CARED about them and set up the Social Security program. They don't want to be left bereft in their old age, and they can be manipulated to believe that ANY change to the program means just that. Many, sadly, can't depend on their kids, because their kids are pursuing their own American Dream, and the thinks the government should take care of their parents; after all, didn't they pay into Social Security their entire lives?

We and our children now have the opportunity to start saving for ourselves without big tax dis-incentives, and we'll be in much better economic circumstances than our parents and grand-parents.