Re: Social Security
Yes, I am aware of the history of SS, and the way it has changed over time. Things always change. What is the point?<br /><br />And more importantly, how do private accounts do anything at all to fix it.<br /><br />How do they do anything but offer a few big brokerage houses a chance to skim a little money from a big pile of money off the top?<br /><br />Like I said, I am all for private acccounts, but we already have them in the form of 401k's and IRA's<br /><br />If we want to change what SS covers, that's fine--let's debate it openly and honestly, and not some VooDoo plan that will simply weaken the system without offering any sort of real fix.<br /><br />And re my daughter, SSDI benefits offer a pretty meager existance which she has never even considered as an option. She is going to graduate this year as a software engineer and probably take a six figure job somewhere, which SSDI isn't too attractive as an alternative. (which, of course, it should not be).
