Privatizers, Watch Out: Get Ready for the Thrilla Grandpa Gorilla

This is all fine and fun, but how about just being up front about this issue and making a list of all the senators and representatives who support privatization of SS?  That way when we open up an email it will have some really productive information....like who not to vote for. This way we can be educated in a fast and simple way and have something concrete to take with us to the polls.
Thanks!
jj

Don’t steal by Social Security

Before this coming election remind voters where their representative stood on this issue. Mike Fergusson 7th district, being the good Republican toady that he is held a closed door limited attendance meeting of the faithful to cheer the demise of SS.

It’s a part of the whole sick demented ideology of the Regressives- that government isn’t responsible for helping its citizens. If the Republicans could’ve figured out a way of making money by rescuing the people stranded in New Orleans,it would have been done, badly done because it conflicts with their basic beliefs, but done just the same.

It looks like big business wins one again if privatizing is enforced!
How will the middle class and poor not be a victim to the greedy businessman who gives bad advice? what about the cons who pry on our U.S. citizens? Who is going to be the wach dog? Why is not the president as well as the senators and laywers in the same social security system? Why is the public left out when we pay their taxes? Too many questions and no protection for the people of the U.S.!!!!!!! The American citizen is against this act of treason against us. Why are we being coerced into something we do not want and will put the average citizen in danger of lossing thousands of dollars!!!!!!

Social Security is NOT an “entitlement” program.  The people who receive benefits have paid for them.  This is another example of George Bush repeating a lie so often and so blatently that some people apparently believe it.  I agree that the voters need to know how each member of Congress voted on Social Security issues.  They have to be held individually responsible.

I agree that we should have a list of those senators and representatives who support privatization of social security.

Being 70 and 71 respectively we do
not worry for ourselves regarding a
privatization of S.S. Rather we have a deep concern for our children and grandchildren and their futures. Our
largest objection is to look at the incredible and increasing national debt piled up by a “do nothing” con- gress but take their money (and by the way we will NOT increase taxes), make bankruptcy harder to claim and ask the generation which is already deeply in personal debt and few of whom have savings or know how to save, and dump the whole of Security for their old(er) age on them. That kind of thinking will only create an entire class of people who cannot save as their parents and grand- parents saved. The only way to handle this is to maintain the S.S. System as it is and to protect what is given to Social Security for S.S.! and NOT borrow against it as the government has been doing.
- Rev. and Mrs. Alan H. Buttaro

Why don’t we begin with the governments retirement/pension network first and see how it works? My bet is that they would want it for themseleves.

It’s just another ploy by the Republican cronies to screw the American public of their earned and pre-paid right!

These are the same monsters who will not give minimum wage workers a raise without an attachment to cut taxes on the very rich, vote them out of office next election.

Can you get a newspaper to run a weekly tot-up of legislators who are trying to undo Social Security, as a public service? A simple headline and less print than they use for horoscopes would do it.

The White House and Congress do not want to privatize the SS. They want to improve it so that when you retire, you get out of it what you pay in. It is going to be tough to recieve or money when there is none in the trust fund due to the spending of the SS surplus on other programs.

How is it privatized if the government is still in control? How is it run by Big Business if controlled by the government? Do you really think you are going to get the money, you put into it. It is a promise not a garuntee that you get the money you already have put in. It is a pay as you go system. I want an account with my name on it, that allows the government to touch none of it for purposes outside my own retirement.

Name names!!

Your scare tactics are deplorable. No American whose benefits are being paid now would even be affected by privitization of SS.

Opposition to privitization is derived from an intense desire of some to control every aspect of our lives, combined with the arrogant belief that we are incapable of caring for ourselves without the government looking out for us.

We should run a two-level system.  For those who want the current system, let them have it. For those who want to manage their own affairs, let them.

When SS started, the ratio of workers to beneficiaries was 16:1. By the time I retire in 2020, it will be 2:1.  What will the tax rate have to be for my kids and grandkids to support me at current benefit levels? It can’t be sustained.

By then, people who “know” more than me will be means testing me out of the system, even though I have paid the maximum amount allowed by law for 47 years.  So, I will have paid in well over $200,000 and will not see a nickel because people are too blind to see that the system is broken and must be reformed.

Wake up! Privitize SS before it is too late—or bankrupt the country. When that happens, those who opposed the privitization will be truly happy, because those who failed to provide for themselves and their families will have to share their misery. 

I pray that I won’t be a victim of their shortsightedness. I am certainly planning to go without the government program.

Can’t believe your ad re privatizing SS and cutting benefits in half.  such pub is irresponsible and so sloppily onesided it makes me want to support the opposite of what you promote....infact I think I will.

Pass an amendment to put a lock box on SS and make a it a felony to borrow from it.

I second that!  Pass an amendment to put a lock box on SS and make it a felony to borrow from it!

Please privatize “social security” and soon. Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Mothers, Fathers, wake up!! Stop Congress’ theft of your children’s and grandchildren’s future. Stop living off of their wages. Socialism is a failed policy. Wake up!!

How can people save what they don’t have? The minimum wage is $5.15. Some states are raising their minimum wage however,Indiana isn’t. Gas prices are moving up at record pace along with food, clothing and healthcare. There recently was a want ad in our local paper advertising for a waitress at Shyler’s Bar-B-Q and it paid $3.25 a hour. Now in this economy and the rising cost of everything except wages people aren’t going out to eat as much let alone leave much of a tip. People are having to resort to credit cards for food, clothing and doctor bills. Where is the extra money to save? Bye the way I saw on Goodmorning America a few days ago where it will be legal for companies to force employees to pay into a pension. Remember Enron.