Why do the Republican's want to give my Social Security to the Stock Market?

[JBF]

Because Social Security is a bad idea and always was. Let us not forget that Social Security passed at a time when few people lived to retirement and was passed as a shameless vote-buying scheme from those few that did.

Today Social Security is not only a lousy savings plan, forced on every citizen at gunpoint but it faces the very real prospect of bankrupting the nation. Social Security is by definition a Ponzi Scheme, every bit as bad as what Madoff was doing except that because the government run the thing its legal. What you pay in you don't get back, your grand kids will be paying for you because right now you are paying for your parents and grandparents.

Anyone who thinks they couldn't take the money they put in Social Security now and invest it themselves and come out ahead, way ahead in the end is at best a functional idiot. Personally I think Social Security should be abolished altogether. Let people do what they want with their own money. I have yet to find anything in the Constitution that says the government has the right to put a gun to my head and force me to invest in a bad retirement plan. The ONLY reason Social Security still exists is because there are so many seniors now and every one of them votes and too many of them didn't save because "the government will take care of them." So now they survive on poverty-level payouts from Big Brothers retirement plan.