| cdude1034 said: I will completely agree with the fact that SS has completely run it's course and it's time for us to take control of our own retirement money. At the time however, the country needed the financial security that FDR provided many people through his programs. You can argue whether or not it was communist/socialist, but the bottom line is that he did what was necesarry at the time and it worked. |
I'm not disagreeing that a mandatory pension system for Americans is a bad idea. It's socialist, but not entirely bad.
However, the program wasn't forward-thinking enough to understand that it'd get outdated. In the modern era, we have far better means of corporate, small business, and self-employed retirement systems, and SS needs scrapped, and quickly. I was shocked when Obama (and others on the left) *accused* John McCain of wanting to privatize Social Security - As if it was a bad thing!
At any rate, I agree that it was needed then but is not needed, in it's current form now.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
