I am strongly against what Bush is trying to do to our Social Security. I have been paying my part for more than 30 years now, and I don't feel that it should be taken away from me. On the other hand, our government was never supposed to start a retirement plan of any kind, according to our Constitution.
The government was wrong by starting Social Security in the first place, but now I feel it will be hard for them to take it away since it has been in force for so long. What the government needs to do is stop taking money out of the funds for Social Security and using it for other things. We have all been paying our part for our retirement and deserve all that is due us.
I am a Republican who is concerned about the way those whom I helped to put into office are running things. I only pray that they will do the right thing and leave our retirement alone.
David Linnabery
Eden
Comments (4)
I agree with David's letter.
Posted by Harold Absher | February 6, 2005 9:36 AM
May David should have considered longer and investigated the candidated deeper before entering the polling booth on 11/4/2004!!!
Posted by Darryl Waisner | February 6, 2005 5:00 PM
SS should be protected? That is a novel idea. Right now a one vote majority in Congress can take all of the money that you think you have in SS away. What you think is there now is not protected and that is why it is not there.
SS is not retirement income, it never was intended to be and it isn't now. You had better think about supporting President Bush or your worst fears kn this area will come true.
Not wishing ill will on you or anyone, for that matter, if someone passes away before SS retirement age then all of the money that has been taken from them by force is lost.
Let's say you can retire at age 65. When you reach 64.5 a one vote majority in Congress changes the retirement age to 67. This person dies when they reach 66. All of their SS money that they worked for and earned for 40 years or more is confiscated by the government. Gone - poof!
President Bush is proposing a plan that will allow you to keep some of the money you earn. Put it in a fund that you can control how it is invested. Be able to draw on it at the proper time and leave it to anyone you choose if and when you die.
The wrong part of it is that it only effects 4% of the money that the government takes from you instead of all of the money that they take.
Posted by Mac McAtee | February 7, 2005 11:30 AM
I remind those that say we better support Bush that Saddam also demanded full support from his people. Bush is already this countries worst nighmare. What Bush isn't telling about his SS plan is that the money borrowed to start the plan has to be paid back out of the account of the retiree when they retire and if anyone believes that Wall Street won't be taking their cut as well needs to do a little more research. It's never what Bush says. The problem is always what he didn't say. Put your money in the hands of his friends if you must but don't whine when you retire and find that his friends accumalated more than you did.
Rebecca Thompson
Burlington, NC
Posted by Rebecca Thompson | February 8, 2005 1:03 AM