Reply #16: ITA with what you are saying. It's just that your original post

[Ilsa]

asked who owned stocks as if no one did unless they were super wealthy. Yeah, what we own is almost insignificant compared to those big block owners.

They will be the ones bailing out and leaving us holding the bag, as you say. If some of them get stung along with us, it isn't as if they won't be able to survive on their other assets. The rest of us, meanwhile, will have nothing, except (hopefully) the roof over our heads. And we won't be able to pay the property taxes if our retirement investments all go belly up.

I think we are all in agreement that this SS reform is a huge scam on the middle and lower classes. DimSon has alot of other problems of his own making to fix before he screws this up.