Should Social Security be privatized to be invested in the Stock Market?

[Comrade]

There is no authority in the Constitution to make me be forced to pay into a socialist policy such as social security.

[Dustin B]

your talking about putting your financial future in the hands of people whom should be tared and feathered. we ,as a country, at some point need to figure out that because you have a Harvard education does not make you a responsible or trustworthy person . enron haliburton ge if a small business owner tried to run their business like these are run he or she would be out of business in less than a year

[Robert Z]

The Republicans wouldn't dare fight for it now. The stock market collapsed and if social security had been privatized, it would have wiped out the entire social security system, just like it just did everybody's IRAs.

The Republican's aren't happy about getting voted out, but at this particular time, the Republicans now will be happy if they don't get lynched for advocating this. We have an old saying in Political Science, Social Security is the 'third rail' of American politics, you touch it, you die.

[m1a1mikegolf]

The republicians were never fighting for SS to be placed in the stock market.

They were (and still should be) fighting to allow individuals to 'op out' of SS and have their contributions placed in personal retirement investment accounts. The can be invested in any manner the person chooses.

The fact of the matter is that most of us will never get the money we paid into SS back.