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Originally Posted by samcol
You obviously have not read Ron Pauls stance on social security.
Not taxing social security, not raising the requirement age, or not paying people who haven't put money in are totally radical extremist positions.  |
Perhaps I misread the Ron Paul stance.... however, that was not the gist of my argument.... Samcol talked about how the Boomers were being selfish.
They aren't..... they put in 40+ years of hard earned money and were promised a return. They have every right for that return. If government spent it and used it up and filled it with IOUs then government needs to fix it.
The WHOLE of my argument and OP I think has been missed.
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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu
From what I understand Ron Paul is not advocating to pull out from people that have paid all their lives, but to start the trend where eventually years down the road, when the pay offs have been settled- to create a situation where people are saving for their own retirements instead of the government doing it for them.
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See, this is one reason why there is some Bipartisanship going on with Illegal Immigration. One, both parties see a huge voting block..... BUT they also see a young, healthy generation that will work for nothing and if made legal through amnesty, can be taxed and thus pay into Social Security and keep it alive so government won't have to be accountable and have to cut pork, like multimillion dollar bridges to no where, subsidizing colleges that raise tuition to the maximum amounts every year, corporate welfare, minimally excised imports, etc.