[SkyPilot]

Oh boy, put your flame suit on. You are going to really tick off the "It's MY money!" crowd. They still believe there is a little metal box with all of "their money" that paid in payroll taxes.

I mean, nobody has actually spent that money already, right?

[VerySadAmerican]

I hope to draw my last SS check the day I did, if it lasts that long. After that, I don’t really care. Selfish, ain’t it.

[GOPJ]

Anytime the US wants to return SS money to married couples - or singles - return the total of what they contributed for years - PLUS INTEREST - we'd be happy to say Bye bye to the system.

The reason Social Security isn't stopped is the payments going in from the young are still feeding the slush fund. In a few years the liars in government today will be talking about ObamaCare being an ‘entitlement’ and they'll try to force people to keep paying while dumping everyone except the most loyal democrat supporters.

[TurboZamboni]

Liberal la la land:
where gubmint pensions are a holy sacrosanct sacrament and marriages are no-fault divorces for Adam and Steve.

[sportutegrl]

Dave Ramsey says that if he were allowed to keep the money he paid into SS, he would have a tenfold increase in retirement income. Yet, SS is going bankrupt? Those two statements seem to contradict each other, so what is true?

I believe that there is a great number of people drawing SS, disability, etc., that either paid in nothing at all or the bare minimum, (worked for a few hours per year for as little as 10 years). Therefore, the solution should be that we should either get rid of SS, or save it for the people who paid in their entire life: 30 or more years, full time. If people want disability, they can buy insurance.

[Wicket]

I had a conversation with a 69 year old who believes that there is a savings account in her name that has been accumulating high rates of interest.

[dragnet2]

You are going to really tick off the "It's MY money!" crowd.

Stupid much?

Government confiscates hundreds of thousands from people's incomes over their employment histories and you suggest they should just roll over and forget about it?

Tell ya what Mr. pilot, I actually wish government would tell everyone tomorrow they're no longer going to get any of the money back which was confiscated from them by threat of imprisonment and death.

What a sight that would be..