[So Cal Rocket]

The 2% reduction in the employee’s SS tax rate will expire at the end of the year.

NOW is the time for a conservative in Congress to propose that when the 2% comes back, it does not go into the so-called “lock box”, but rather is invested in an individual account in the employee’s name that he can’t touch until he is eligible to draw Social Security.

[gloryblaze]

Is that not exactly what Bush tried to do, and all heck broke loose? Which is the OP’s point...