Remember when Dubya & the c0ns wanted to merge social security with the stock market?

[Mad Mama]

Yes, and that would have been very bad for the nation last year at this time.

People are free to invest in the market on their own if they feel that is the way to go. Social Security is 6.2% of your check. They can invest 6.2% of their take home pay - it isn't that much, if they feel the stock market is the way to go.

Since SS won't be solvent by the time I retire - I am investing in the stock market now.

[dave747]

Liar.

He wanted to make investing in the stock market an OPTION.

the problem for Dems is that they dont FUND your social security. Allowing a person to have a self-directed social security account would mean that government would actually have to use the payroll taxes you pay, and deposit them in an account you could manage.

Dems HATE that idea, because currently they take your FICA taxes and piss it away on pork. Why in the he11 would Democrats want you to have control of your own retirement money? They're having too much fun SPENDING it.