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Are YOU willing to give up YOUR Social Security?

Would you give up your Social Security?


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i vote no, and i am over 40.
 
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I'am 40. I'am willing to give up my social security, based upon the current SS witholdings being placed into a private account. Preferably a 401K type.
 
I would prefer to give it up and have what I have paid in returned to me to invest how I see fit.
 
They can take my Social Security when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
 
My age has nothing to do with it so I didn't vote in the poll.

The answer is yes regardless.
 
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My age has nothing to do with it so I didn't vote in the poll.

The answer is yes regardless.

i asked for age specifically becasue i think older people would vote dirrentelty than younger people. i was also hoping for those who deride entitlement programs to weigh in......no surprise they have not.
 
They can take my Social Security when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

see, you and i agree. why should anyone think it's fair to give the wealthy tax breaks when the same people want to take away ss? how can people be so stupid?
 
i asked for age specifically becasue i think older people would vote dirrentelty than younger people. i was also hoping for those who deride entitlement programs to weigh in......no surprise they have not.

Its a crap question based on if personal greed will come into account. I have no personal greed when it comes to my principles. I have never wanted social security nor do I desire it now and if I live to be hundred and have nothing to show for myself I will think the same.

Btw, I'm 28.
 
i asked for age specifically becasue i think older people would vote dirrentelty than younger people. i was also hoping for those who deride entitlement programs to weigh in......no surprise they have not.

I'am not a fan of entitlement programs. I thought you just wanted to know who would opt in or out?
 
see, you and i agree. why should anyone think it's fair to give the wealthy tax breaks when the same people want to take away ss? how can people be so stupid?


How can you miss the point so badly?
 
see, you and i agree. why should anyone think it's fair to give the wealthy tax breaks when the same people want to take away ss? how can people be so stupid?

What makes social security so sacrosanct? Is it because another generation promised themselves security in their retirements that they might not deserve? Is it because you have been conditioned to suck the tit of the government in your old age the same way you did your mother's in your infancy? Why is the younger generation to be saddled with the debt of helping the older one keep promises it never should have made at our expense anyway?
 
I'am 40. I'am willing to give up my social security, based upon the current SS witholdings being placed into a private account. Preferably a 401K type.

I recall a member on another board, very conservative, who touted the investing of his SS. He lost a crap load the last Wllstreet down turn. He admitted his error in thinking. If your young enough, you can recover from these things, but if they happen late, you lose. A gamble is a gamble, always.
 
What makes social security so sacrosanct? Is it because another generation promised themselves security in their retirements that they might not deserve? Is it because you have been conditioned to suck the tit of the government in your old age the same way you did your mother's in your infancy? Why is the younger generation to be saddled with the debt of helping the older one keep promises it never should have made at our expense anyway?

quite a nasty response. hmm.

wow. in a word, no. got anything sensible to add, or do you plan to just post bull****?
 
I recall a member on another board, very conservative, who touted the investing of his SS. He lost a crap load the last Wllstreet down turn. He admitted his error in thinking. If your young enough, you can recover from these things, but if they happen late, you lose. A gamble is a gamble, always.

I agree with you. The gamble could also apply to me collecting SS. One can have faith in the entitlement not going bankrupt. One can also have faith in the market to fund his/her retirement.
 
quite a nasty response. hmm.

wow. in a word, no. got anything sensible to add, or do you plan to just post bull****?

Nasty response is right on.
 
quite a nasty response. hmm.

wow. in a word, no. got anything sensible to add, or do you plan to just post bull****?

I asked a legitimate series of questions. I'm sorry that they may have struck a sour note with you but then, those who are planning to be dependent on the dole for their life's bread often find sourness in reasonable observations of the selfishness of their plan.

So you can dodge and scramble to deflect from anyone noticing the elephant in the room but at the end of the day, the question still remains: exactly why is Social Security so sacrosanct to you? What responsibility does the collective younger generation have to shoulder the debt of promises an older generation made to itself, for itself, at the expense of all those who would come after?
 
I agree with you. The gamble could also apply to me collecting SS. One can have faith in the entitlement not going bankrupt. One can also have faith in the market to fund his/her retirement.

the ss mess has an easy fix. increase the cap on earnings.
 
the ss mess has an easy fix. increase the cap on earnings.

And are you going to increase the benefits for those who's earning caps are raised, too?
 
Yes, if I get a refund on everything I've paid into it. I won't even ask for interest.
 
the ss mess has an easy fix. increase the cap on earnings.

If the fix was so easy, why did neither the democrats nor republicans put the matter up for a vote when they held the majority in Congress?
 
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