[Chewbacca]

If the Government would allow me to opt out of social security I would do it in a heart beat and they could keep all the money I have currently paid into it.

It was stolen from me without my consent, has already been spent by the Government, and I know that I will never see a cent of it anyway when I get old.

[Waco]

When the fedguv says you must pay the S.S. tax but you may NOT collect any pension from it,,,,,,will it be called a felony then?

[wolicy_ponk]

Our generation (I was born the late sixties, and didn't realize I was part of X) and the following one have gotten the shaft from the outset, qam1.
One quarter of us have already been killed by abortion.
That's somewhere around 43 Million people.
Now, we are all gonna be the marks in the great big govt. ponzi scheme.
Most of us should have retirement plans already, since nobody believes SS will be there,anyway.
Even if some form of it were, bread could cost $10.00 a loaf, and gas $8.00 a gallon, so we will practically HAVE to be millionares just to make it.

I would grab my wallet whenever DemocRATs talk about lockboxes, because they're the ones who opened the kitty to begin with...

[MissAmericanPie]

Here's an idea, take the 34 billion Bush plans to give to corrupt Mexicans and put it into the SS general fund, sue the estates of dead and alive senators and congressmen that voted to raid it time after time to recoup some of the losses.

Stop sending SS to Porta Rico, and to every foreigner that ships his parents in for a six month stay so they can sign up for SS and ISI. Stop sending checks overseas at all until and unless the recepient can prove he is a US citizen that has been gainfully employeed in this country.

That would be a start.

[Nick Danger]

I have no sympathy for liberals who accept the "wishes are horses" school of economics. Anybody who is now 50 or 60, who did not see this coming at least 25 years ago, just wasn't paying attention.

Even if it were possible, there is something inhuman and creepy about an older generation using the force of government to transfer income from the generation raising the society's children, to themselves. That is just cosmically wrong.

Fellow boomers, please join me in having a nice long puff on your cigarette. If you don't smoke, start. The best thing to do here is to get the hell out of the way at some reasonable age. Let this intergenerational transfer nonsense die with the FDR worshippers. It is a fundamentally sick idea.

[moonman]

Thanks for the post.

In 1964, at age 14, I started working jobs which required income tax and S.S. being withheld. They broke the 'retire full benefit at age 65' promise once already. Now, they not only want me to work a little past 66, but well beyond. CASH ME IN! Send me the amount I've paid in and let me invest it.

[1Old Pro]

There's a simple fix to social security: END IT, DON'T MEND IT.

[k2blader]

What a bunch of whiny leftist blather.

Soon enough the boomers will join the ranks of the greedy geezers.

I'm all for cutting benefits and raising the retirement age, not to mention grandfathering out such a socialist mess of a system.