[NYTexan]

I did'nt miss any key, You did! (cooperative society)

This country was founded on independance and freedom, not goverment oppression!

If you have paid into SS all these years at max rates then you would have to have been doing pretty damn well for yourself.

So now your glad to be getting your monthly SS check! Is that because You are greedy or because you spent each and every one of your dollars???

[dasein64]

This is a particularly nasty post. What do you propose for those workers who have had SS taken from their wages? There was no option to being taxed for SS for either you or your employer. Are you going to see to it that the money confiscated by the government via FICA be returned to the reluctant participants of this Ponzi scheme as well as to their equally reluctant employers? And are you even aware that a large percentage of SS taxes go for other than retirement programs? That is the real reason no politican wants to get mired in this SS discussion. So you let workers opt out of the system--then where will the money come from to fund all of the non-payers who get their cut from the money transfer schemes that have been grafted on to the SS system? Further, this money is recirculated into the economy and is taxed over and over again as it is spent. Get off you soap box, which most of us know all about anyway, and face the reality of the SS system.

[oldcomputerguy]

"You are greedy or because
you spent each and every one of your dollars??? "

You will believe whatever you want to believe, have at it,
and believe whatever you want.