Posted on 09/28/2004 7:27:13 AM PDT by The Great Yazoo
Put me on your X-er ping.
Community property laws may still apply. Get a legal opinion from a competent lawyer in the state where the parties reside.
If you were anywhere in physical proximity to me, we would have a bet on this. This is going to occur within six years; probably within three. The Demodogs are losing the ability to scare the seniors about this issue.
The seniors aren't the same seniors they've scared in the past. What used to be seniors are now us. I'm not clear on how that'll play though.
You may get some partial privatization but as long as most of my SS tax goes into the Ponzi scam, it's a loser for us younger folk. I'll grant that the Demodogs don't have much to stand on now that Alan Greenspan has delivered two dire warnings.
I will predict with some confidence that the Demodogs will succumb to President Bush's efforts to allow everyone to deposit some of their SS funds into a private account. They need to do so to get some pressure off before too many more elections. The younger voters are getting more and more adament about this, and older ones like me are too.
It's not my story -- it's just an example of how government management of personal relationships stinks. The biggest problem is that most people have no idea what the inheritance and divorce laws are when they get married, and the state sees no need to inform them before they sign the "contract", nor when the laws change.
For a peek at what a good privatized system would look like go to Cato website. They have been leading the charge for 20 years.
That's what lawyers are for! (Sorry, but I gotta feed my kids somehow!)
I just posted Part II
Anyone who is against private accounts and wants to stay with the current system is completely insane. The money should completely be kept in private accounts with the government not seeing a penny of it.
I will need to save my money if Bush continues to waste it abroad. He needs to focus on social security reform, cutting taxes, cutting the size of government and stop wasting time on Iraq. I absolutely couldnt care less about Iraq except as a potential oil source and military base. You dont need to pay hundreds of billions for that.
My point is only that there will be no massive, sudden change. This is a first step to allocating the "trust funds."
Exactly.
And in all the talk of "privitization" and the numbers being crunched and the rhetorical volume being raised, I NEVER hear the fundamental truth that Social Security is direct affront on our most sacred value: individual freedom.
Being forced to pay into an unaccountable system for decades of my life is not, in my opinion, constitutional.
If I don't save for my future when that's my business. I can always work until I die. Or I'll starve and live on the street. Regardless, it's not anyone else's concern. I shouldn't have to be forced by law because some liberal idiot wants to be compassionate.
So fighting a war on terrorist scum that want to murder us isn't a priority for you?
Sorry, you won't need Social Security or worry about taxes or the size of government when it's more than likely, given your statement, that you'll be killed by our enemies.
And no need to post back with all the "Iraq didn't attack us" or "Iraq has nothing to do with the War on Terror" BS rhetoric. I'll never buy it and anyone that does, in my opinion, is an idiot.
The Social Security Administration's operating budget is over $8 billion. That's pretty expensive alreay.
And they won't be doing the tracking. The "private" money will go into equivalents of your 401K, or the same ones you already own, and those are simply tracked by these strange boxes on our desk we call computers.
Fighting a war against muslims is a priority. Spending hundreds of billions and thousands of lives in building up a nation of terrorists is not a priority. Dont try to lump the building of Iraq and the War on Islam together. They are two separate things and one is a waste of our resources and the other is something that must be done.
I even told you in advance that I wouldn't buy that theory and in no way could I be persuaded. But you went ahead and did it anyway.
And I still think you are 100% incorrect. Regards.
"And no need to post back with all the "Iraq didn't attack us" or "Iraq has nothing to do with the War on Terror" BS rhetoric. I'll never buy it and anyone that does, in my opinion, is an idiot."
If you read my post you will see I am not saying that Iraq didnt attack us or that Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror. I am completely in favor of the war against Iraq. I am against the building up of Iraq and spending hundreds of billions on their government, military, police, infrastructure, etc. So I didnt "went and did it anyway."
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