How the Republicans tore down our country

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50. Sounds like

you've bought into a lot of Republican talking points about Social Security and that

younger people would be "better" off getting rid of it eventually.

Tell me -- What would you put in it's place?....The stock market?....That, IMO, would be very foolish...Just think where today's

retirees and those close to retirement would be NOW, had they bought that idea when Bush proposed it a few years ago -- ALL of their

money would be gone....As it is, our accounts are secure.

You claim "I've known since I was a child" that you werent' going to be able to "rely on SS to sustain you in retirment".

I'm curious -- beyond the fact that no one who IS ABLE to save for retirment, should rely completely on SS, tell me -- What made

you "know"? I've heard this strange "certainty" about it from many around your age and I'm always puzzled by it.

The fact is, you and your generation WILL have it if you support it and WANT it.....What would you prefer?...Paul

Ryan's "voucher plan"? ....The Stock Market?

In addition, the idea that "people are living longer now", than when SS started, is a myth.

I'm not a math or stat wizard, but that erroneous assumption was explained away by Thom Hartmann, among

others. As he said, because there are more PEOPLE now living past infancy, (The infant mortality rate has declined steeply)

as wll as those who can survive infectious diseases due to the discovery of penicillin

there are simply MORE People living on into adulthood, but that doesn't mean that

those who live to the age of sixty are living LONGER than people of other generations who got

to that age. My grandmother, who was your age in the Thirties when Social Security was new,

lived to be eighty seven...HER parents, who were over sixty at that time, lived into their Nineties,

and their life spans were not especially exceptional.