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Klei4545@sbcglobal.net (guest)
12/01/2007 9:53 PM Alert 
You asked the question...Do you think Social Security can be fixed? Yes. First, lift the cap...let the millionaires and billionaires pay on their full income, not just $94,000.00. Then remove Social Security from the general fund. Also, Social Security should be invested in the same place GI insurance is invested. This insurance pays yearly dividends far beyond the amount paid into it. Also,to receive Social Securiy you must be a citizen of the United States.
Teri Szablewski
Posts:1
12/03/2007 11:11 AM Alert 

Read your story about fixing Social Security, ha!

If the government would just keep their greedy hands off the fund,we would not be looking at such a shortfall,.We need to pass a law they can't steal from this fund anymore. which will never happen ,after all who makes the laws,but those abusing the fund. ts.

Joe Marcom
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12/03/2007 6:27 PM Alert 
Some things are just not fixable, and this is one of them. Funding depends on having more workers paying in than retirees collecting benefits. In 1933, the ratio was about 17:1 - not surprising, since retirement age was set at 65, but life expectancy that year was 61.7 years for men, and 65.1 years for women. Now, the ratio is down to 2.5:1 and falling, while life expectancy is approaching 80 for both sexes. The Social Security plan is essentially a Pyramid " Scheme", and the folks low on the pyramid always lose out.

My benefit checks come directly from my children's payroll taxes; they, on the other hand, will be left holding an empty bag. The program should be phased out as quickly as possible. Anything less is tatamount to theft of their future.
Diana Fanuel
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07/04/2008 9:36 PM Alert 
As the first poster, "klei" said: Just remove the cap and have everyone beyond earning $94,000 yearly continue paying into social security fund. That's a no-brainer solution.
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