Reply #54: No, the lockbox was a great idea [View All]

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

The problem is that the government spent all of the money and will choose to reduce benefits instead of pay it back. If they had implemented the lockbox then the money would still be there and there would be no reason to reduce benefits. That money was not the governments to do with as it pleased. It came from taxes from American citizens for a specific purpose.

If you want to make an analogy, then the Dad in the family collected money each week from everyone in the family for the purpose of buying a new car that would benefit everyone in the family. Then Dad decides to spend that money on himself (in a week-long binge of drinking, gambling, and whoring) and puts an IOU in the sock drawer that he has no intention of honoring. The family no longer has the money to get a new car and everyone suffers.