[i_robot73]

No, I said KILL it and say “Sorry, the gov’t blew it all”. There was/is/ever will be any guarantee.

And your choice of poison? I’m always open to hear ideas

[sam_paine]

No, I said KILL it and say “Sorry, the gov’t blew it all”.

And you can just flap your arms and go to the moon if you wanted to also?

Ok. So now you've said it. And you're President for life. How do you propose to actually DO that?

The checks and balances of Congress make it impossible for even Wizard Ron Paul to do that were he president.

Even Milton Friedman admitted that for any solution to entitlements or any regulation there'd have to be a well defined transition period (he usually answered "5 years" for social security privatization.) and the outstanding obligations could not just be cut cold turkey.

I have no illusions about the political feasibility of moving to a strictly voluntary system. The tyranny of the status quo and the vested interests that have been created are too strong. I believe, however, that the ongoing discussion about privatizing Social Security would benefit from paying more attention to fundamentals rather than dwelling simply on the nuts and bolts of privatization.