Ann Coulter says welfare policies responsible for looting....

[fordy]

badgenome said:

fordy said:

This is the same social security that people pay into their whole life, right? You don't think it's suspicious that the constant contributions from the American people, and it's still the largest on the graph?

Social security actually has a 2.6 Trillion dollar SURPLUS, but since your corrupt government has been putting their hand in, constantly pulling money from social security to fund other things, now they're complaining that they have to pay it back. I wouldn't call that a failure of the social security itself.

Instead treating us like adults and allowing us to actually keep the money that we earn and save it for our own retirements (or not, as we see fit), our notoriously spending-addicted government insists on taking a chunk out of our every paycheck with the promise that it will give it back to us when we're all grown up. That's a pretty ridiculous premise. Whether it's a failure of social security or just a failure of the dumb assholes who are in charge of social security amounts to the same thing.

That's a completely different issue altogether. Though the difference is, if the people were really in charge of that money, it would be theirs to do what they like with it. However, I'm willing to bet that if Social security gets cut, that money won't be going the employee's way...