Reply #35: That IS NOT what bush's plan is.

[LynnTheDem]

His plan will FORCE YOU to INVEST that money. CRAP SHOOT. ENRON. etc.

WHY do you think WALL STREET is so damn happy with bush's plan???

We are NOT in a SS crisis. And that's a FACT.

As for why can't you take your money now & do whatever with it...and what happens to you when you must withdraw that money to pay for medical bills to try and save your life? Or your spouse's life? Or your child's life?

And it's then all gone. You've spent it.

And you're 70 years old, can't get a job, and have another decade or two to live. And no money.

Should I have to pay YOUR share of SS too, or should we just let you sit in a park somewhere until you die?

And the above scenario is why we have Social Security as it is.

Of course we could just put a bullet in your brain, now that we get em cheap from Tiawan. We'll line up the old folk who don't have any money saved up, for whatever reason (the invested in another bushie-Enron, or the stock market crashes etc) and we'll just shoot em into a mass grave.

Do you know WHY America started Social Security??? Because people did what they wanted with their own money...they invested, just as bush wants us to do now...and then the stock market crashed. And people were left with their entire leife's savings wiped out. Literally penniless.

And America was left with a whole lot of people who couldn't even afford a sandwich. Do we hand over OUR savings to help them? Or do we line em up & mass grave em? Just let them starve in the streets and pick up the corpses? That is why SS was implemented; a SAFETY NET of SECURITY.

bush LIES about there being a crisis, and wants to take away the SECURITY of that SAFETY NET and put it right back where we started...playing the stock market.