I am 21, EVERYONE I talk to about social security, most under the age of 27, agrees w/ Bush's plan for it.
Hey, I'm 33 and privatizing Social Security would be, IMHO, the best thing that ever happened to it. I'm a bit partial to Paul Ryan's plan (then again, he's my Congresscritter after redistricting allowed me to lose Jerry "Crash" Kleczka).
Glad to hear it, and spread the word. Even we older folks want this for you youngsters. Don't buy the greedy geezer line.
Both of my children are in their 20's and have 401Ks at work and would LOVE to be able to have part of their Soc. Security in private accounts, partly because they don't think there will BE any money for them when they retire from SS.
Shout it to the roof tops! LOL
(Was he GREAT! He was GREAT! ("Thank you God, for GWB.")
Way back in the 50's, Ayn Rand (100th anniversary today of her birthday) wrote of this very problem - that there would come a time when only 2 people of working age would be paying for each 1 on SS....
It's needed fixing for a long time - indeed , it's been, by and large, just one long scam - a Ponzi scheme. Bush, tonight - (FINALLY, someone said it out loud,) why do the senators and congressmen and other federal workers have the privilege (voted to themselves only) of a private account SS...That's what we have to use as our theme.
Democrat senators and congressmen have had the Gaul to say that we - the lowly peons - aren't wise enough to handle it. But THEY are?
We can pin their ears back on this one. If it isn't a good deal, why did they vote it and keep it all these decades for themselves?
(I have 15 grandkids - I want to know they have a chance not to work all the days of their lives...)