Change we can believe in!

Seems to me like the government is learning from the insurance corporations! And here I always thought that the government was supposed to REGULATE insurance companies.

seems strange to me that anyone in government thinks that retirement money belongs to them, rather than the people who were forced to pay into the funds so that no one would starve when we got too old to work.

Looks like the great class less society has now become the great 2 class system -- the oh so rich, and the working poor.

Good to know we're making such great progress!!

I started working when I was 13 years old. I've worked hard all my life. No desk job - I've been in landscaping most of my adult life because that was the business my family was in, and that was what I knew how to do that paid more than minimum wage. At 56 I still work very hard, but I'm slower and my body hurts a lot more at the end of the day. I've been looking forward to retiring in nine years, and hoping that my body will hold out that long. When I hear those people who do have the desk jobs talk about raising the retirement age to 70, I just don't know if I can do this work that long. At 70 I will have been working 57 years. And paying into Social Security all those years, too.

If congress hadn't raided the SS funds, allowed the interest in the money in SS funds to be added to the funds instead of spent as part of the government's money (!!!) there would be enough money in the SS funds to keep SS going for a long, long time.

First Congress steals the interest, now they want to steal our retirement. But how can we take their special privileges away when they are the ones who vote for them? The fox guards the chicken-coop, and we poor chickens get screwed.