Keep Hands Off Social Security

[cornermouse]

Helen Thomas

...Bush wants workers to earmark 2 percent of their Social Security payroll taxes for individual private investment accounts, a move that would undermine funding for the 69-year-old program that was designed to provide retirees with a secure income...

...Anyone who remembers the 1929 Wall Street debacle knows that it would be risky business to divert our Social Security payroll taxes to play the market. There have many other market collapses since. The dot-com implosion changed the retirement plans of millions of Americans. More recently, it would be well to "think Enron."

Bush promoted privatization at his so-called two-day White House Economic Conference last week -- a misnomer if there ever was one, since nearly all the attendees were cheerleading CEOs. Labor representatives were conspicuously among the uninvited...

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/4019064/detail.html

[still_one]

1. I have very little faith in the cowardly democrats in congress

to fight against this, but I am hoping they will

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Simplify it for Joe Dumbass. Call the reThugs plan "Social Engineering."

Start scaring the crap out of people here-and-now.

I love Helen Thomas, but nobody in DumbFuckistan wants a history lesson.

[jdj]

3. Black Commentator is taking this angle.

POinting out how it will devastate Black retirees ( no link)

Krugman's column was best, saying 99% of moneys go to plan, 1% is overhead, making SSI the most efficient government program, way more efficient than most non-profits and charities. The model needs to be "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

[bunkerbuster1]

5. I guess you mean http://www.blackcommentator.com/ ?

Hadn't seen that site before, but thanks for the tip.

[NVMojo]

4. How about, "Keep Hands OFF Things That Belong to Others"??

Like countries ...lives ... sex lives ....and on and on and on and on. The Repuklicon Party has become the most intrusive party ever ...

[Egalitariat]

6. That sounds like an argument FOR privatizing

Keeping your hands off what belongs to me would mean NOT forcing me to pay into the system. Wouldn't it?