"Maxprop" wrote

.... It's time that Americans can manage their own funds for retirement.
It's not a matter of right and wrong, it's a matter of arithmetic. I pay
both side of SS because I'm self-employed. If I could have self-invested
even one-half of the money I've ****ed into SS, I'd have been able to
retire
five years ago.

I would have agreed four years ago when the Dow was pushing 15K and we were
planning to use a growing surplus to pay down the debt. The value of my
private investments were growing so fast I expected to have retired by now.
It never occurred to me that Republicans - and I'd voted GOP all my life -
could bungle BOTH the economy and foreign relations so badly. Now, with the
Dow under 10, the surplus gone and deficite skyrocketing, our country in
another Vietnam quagmire and the world facing a war of terrorism ....