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January 3rd, 2005
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Who's afraid of Social Security Reform?
As much as the Democrats are trying to portray reform of Social Security as a veritable Big Bad Wolf out to get Grandma, they were the party hawking Social Security reform in the 1990s to get votes.

So what has changed?

Well, there is the obvious: it is a Republican pushing for reform now. That automatically makes it bad politically. But is there something else at play that is driving the Democrats to take unusual and desperate measures?

Demographics!

The Baby Boomers are retiring. The last thing the Democrats want is a huge voting block grateful to the Republican Party for ensuring that their retirement benefits are safe and sound.

From the Democrat point of view, the Baby Boomers should be grateful to the government, but because of a Democrat, not a Republican! The Democrat Party thrives on dependency: dependency on the government for your job, your health care and your retirement.

Because the Baby Boomers represent an unusually large segment of the population, the party that can gain political favor with them will dominate politics well into the 21st century. The Democrats are already waging a losing battle in one demographic trend. Losing the Boomers would consign them to minority party status for decades to come.

What we are seeing is a war over the Baby Boomer generation. The sad thing is the Democrats could really not care less about the financial security of this group (or any group) because dependence on the government is what they sell and why they exist.

Consider this: the proposed changes allow for people to remain in the present system with no chance whatsoever. Even though this is precisely the Democrat "plan", the Democrats claim that this is a "trick" and that Wall Street marketing will "lure" people into "dangerous" investments. Once again Democrats claim that people are too stupid to be trusted with their own money, and that their plan, when offered as a choice amounts to a "trick".

Pardon me if I am offended on behalf of intelligent Boomers everywhere. This sounds like the logic of a used car salesman trying to talk you out of going to a new car dealer to get a newer car at the same price as his used car. A "trick"? People will be "lured" into "dangerous" investments? That actually sounds like the Social Security plan! Trick people into thinking it is a retirement fund when it is not sufficient to retire on and the only "funds" are the promise of future taxpayer dollars.

I am confident that the Baby Boomer generation is smart enough to see right through the scare tactics of the Democrats. That is good news for their retirement years, good news for America and great news for the future of the Repbulican Party.
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From: [info]therespollux Date: January 4th, 2005 02:32 pm (UTC) (Link to this entry)
I think SS should be optional. ONe can make more money investing it themselves than allowing the government to mess with it. It's really just highway robbery because none of us has any say. The money is stolen from our paychecks every week. There are also a number of things that can happen to ensure you never see ANY of your SS money, and a few things that can happen that make it so you and your family see much less of your SS than what you put into it. It's not given back to you in a lump sum but in dribs and drabs and you practically have to beg for your own money! They have an entire adminstration and they employ thousands of people who get to treat you like crap and who simply exist to mishandle YOUR money. I hate SS and I just want the money that goes into it to go into my IRA instead. People should have that choice. It's their money! And if liberals worry about the poor, they can donate double to SS if they want to cover them. Who wants to live off their SS when they're old, anyway? It's nothing in the end.

So why not make it optional? Why the government sanctioned robbery? And I'm not rich, so basically the gov is stealing from the poor to give to the poor, which is bull because if they take my money then they consign me in a way to living off of it and being owned by them when I'm old. I'm not going to let that happen, but I know lots of people will!
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reality_hammer From: [info]reality_hammer Date: January 5th, 2005 04:38 am (UTC) (Link to this entry)
It should be optional, but like all Ponzi schemes, it lasts longer when you have more "investors" to prop it up.
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josparke From: [info]josparke Date: January 4th, 2005 03:35 pm (UTC) (Link to this entry)
I'm safer with the stock market than the chance of losing it to government default
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