As soon as McCain is president, he intends to eliminate social security.?

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1) First, mcCain isn't going to do anything by himself. Social Security change was tried by Bush and he didn't get anywhere at all. He gave up trying. McCain, IF he wins (hah!) is not going to have a mandate to do anything like kill social security - he is going to have a democratic congress, and they aren't going to do something as stupid as kill social security and get themselves thrown out of office. McCain may want to, but it's not going to happen.

2) I sure hope that we NEVER put social security into a big mutual fund. The free market has crashed - my mutual funds are worth about half of that they were last year. Mutual funds are perhaps the WORST investment around these days - even worse than stocks. The only sure thing right now is that a mutual fund is worth a lot less than it was. So putting my retirement savings in a government mutual fund is asking for trouble.

3) Worse yet is your cockamamie idea of "voting" on investments. What a poor idea - why would I trust you to vote for my interests? I would much rather have professionasl investors who know the market, rather than a bunch of ignorant yahoos? DO you really thing that voting on what to invest money in, is a good idea? What do you know about my retirement needs?

All in all, a terriffically BAD idea.