Tag Archives: 'social security'

• Fixing Social Security

  The title of this post is not as accurate as it probably could be, but “Eliminating Social Security and Implementing a New, Improved Federal Retirement System” doesn’t have the same ring to it. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t fit on one line, and that’s the type of stuff that eats away at me. Current (and [...]

• Part Two

  Consider this part two of my blogger manifesto. I have too many blogs. This blog is my pride-and-joy, and honestly, I could not imagine life without it, however sad that makes me feel that this is what the world has come to. In fact, I’m just glad building web-sites is cool now. Why wasn’t this [...]

• Social Security Trust Fund

  I sat through one of the more hilarious unintentionally funny lunch-time seminars at work today. A representative of the Social Security Administration illustrated the Social Security benefit system with the theme, “Social Security: There when you need it.” The presentation was brief, lasting only forty minutes or so. The first part was relatively beneficial. She [...]

• Privatization

  Mitt Romney has the quote of the campaign so far… “You call it privatization, I call it a private account.“ He is discussing, of course, the privatization of Social Security, and I am glad to go on record that I am in favor of eliminating Social Security altogether, in the course of a phased withdrawal, [...]