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There is no SS pension fund. Your SS taxes go into the general fund. Polititians do not have the dicipline to keep from using SS money for everything else.
The way it is now SS is just a means test welfare system. The means are based on how much SS wages you had over your working life. Most of us that have been working 30+ years or so would have a small fortune if we could have invested that SS tax money ourselves. Instead we will settle for something like $2000 per month or so.
The SS system will only go broke if the federal government goes broke. Your chances of getting your SS money are at least as good as any other outlay the government has to make. It all comes out of the same pot.
Bush's plan just looks like another tax cut to me. Just one more little bit not going into the general fund. Of course eventually the government will have to take in as much as it gives out but SS is just one of the outlays. With the baby-boomers just now reaching retirement age, woe be to the polititian who tries to cut SS benefits, LOL.
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