Social Security is a fund that workers have paid into and not everyone lives to collect but it is [View all]

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there for those who paid into it AND it has never defaulted on benefits unless I am wrong. On the other hand many, many people have paid into private pension funds other retirement accounts only to have it be destroyed by the corporate state (think ENRON). This should be one huge talking point for the Dems. Social Security is sound for the 30 years at least unless a GOP President and Congress find some way to destroy it. Each generation has a way of fixing the problems facing it so does anyone really believe that in 30 years s solution to retirement security won't be found if the government protect it? And the folks who think it's ok to vote for R/R don't realize that when they mess with Medicare it will eat into their "protected SS" faster than they think.