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Quote by: tivodan1116 And therein lies the mess.
Gorgo and others think that "Fixing Social Security" means ensuring that future generations can continue to be leeches on the rest of society by sitting on their rear ends and doing nothing while collecting a handout merely due to their age. |
What makes you think these people are "leeches"? The way SS is set up your generation pays for the one before and the next generation pays for YOU. There is no free ride the conservatives are babbling about. They PAID it, but they didn't GET it. That's for the following generation.
Don't deliberately try to paint Social Security as welfare. It is not.
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This ensures that anyone who has not adequately prepared for retirement can still collect, and that anyone who cannot collect (people younger then 30 currently) has at least 35 or so years to prepare for retirement.
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And what if they DID prepare for retirement, but they prepared for it by having a portfolio stuffed with Enron stock? What happens then?
Say what you want against SS, but you have to admit it is secure.