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William Thoms
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12/11/2007 12:50 PM Quote Reply Alert 
Shame on the Erickson Corporation for relying so heavily on the Heritage Foundation for opinion about how to solve the Social Security funding problem and for mocking reasonable people who oppose privatization in their December 2007 Erickson Tribune article. Social Security is a pipeline between generations of Americans. Workers pay into the system and retirees, widows, orphans and the disabled collect the benefits they need. Simple, small and incremental adjustments in rates of benefit COLAs and Social Security taxes will easily solve the demographic problem caused by lower birth rates and longer life expectancy. To advocate cutting off inflow to the benefit pipeline via privatization is a transparent effort to kill the most important social program ever enacted in this country. Why is it that Corporate America can't seem to get over the success of FDR's lasting legacy? Privatization couldn't get any traction even when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. But that hasn't stopped Bush from starving the agency that serves more Americans than any other by vetoing reasonable funding for its administrative budget to deliberately sabotage the vital services so many of us rely on. Bush and his rich cronies want the whole program to wither on the vine so they can come back with Round Two of their push to dismantle Social Security.
armand jordan (guest)
12/14/2007 2:56 PM Quote Reply Alert 
Audit the incoming versus the outgoing, an immediately STOP robbing from it an putting it in the General Fund to pay other bills. Put the excess into a fund paying 4 or 5 percent interest an in ten years you would have an excess. Stop the idea of including all the illegal immigrants into the system until they qualify. Thank you..
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