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Originally Posted by Jaxian Is it? I think that if a government professional invested my money, he could make a lot higher return than I could. I really know very little about investment.
Certainly I'm not going to disagree that our current social security plan is making me less money than I could make on my own. But under our current plan, the government is not investing my money at all. If they were investing my money, they'd do a far better job than I, don't you think? | Then why not have the government invest your money in bonds, CD's, etc. instead of IOU's?? Seems to make sense to me  | That does make sense, and that's the point Uncle Sam needs to do it.
If you don't take that $60 from me every week and invest it for me it won't happen...... I have a wife 3 kids 2 dogs and plenty of things I could spend $60 bucks a week on. Don't fuck me out of it. I like the idea of it going into a private account but uncle sam or big brother somebody has to take it away from me for my own good and make it grow so I don't have to live in a cardboard box eating cat food when I am 70.
Yes social security is broken, but it is better than nothing. "We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer." - William Bradford Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right.....
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