Historian: FDR Was The Last Great President. Let's Never Have Another.

[Chris]

Would have been nice to have had the option to put 50 years of SS investment into private investment.

[nic34]

Would have been nice to have had the option to put 50 years of SS investment into private investment.

I just love this non-argument. It's something you could do anyway.

But most of us lived paycheck to paycheck when we were young, so it would have been spent sooner rather than later.

Or lost during the 2008 Bush meltdown...

[nic34]

You mean the social security program that's essentially bankrupt?

The one that's basically a ponzi scheme?

The one that I'll have paid a $#@!load of money into during my lifetime and won't see a fraction of it in return?

Yeah, that's the one.

Do you know how insurance works?

Do you ever get your car insurance back? Even if you never use it?

[Mister D]

I just love this non-argument. It's something you could do anyway.

But most of us lived paycheck to paycheck when we were young, so it would have been spent sooner rather than later.

Or lost during the 2008 Bush meltdown...

No, it's not something you could do anyway, nic. The 6.2% is taken out of my check. It's gone. There is nothing else I can do with it.

[Captain Obvious]

Would have been nice to have had the option to put 50 years of SS investment into private investment.

Agreed, wholly!

But that would defeat the true purpose of the plan which was to have a political cookie jar and a gubmint dependency-driving federal program.

[Captain Obvious]

Do you know how insurance works?

Do you ever get your car insurance back? Even if you never use it?

The better question is - do YOU know how insurance works?

Google "unfunded liability", read it, understand it then talk to me.

[Chris]

I just love this non-argument. It's something you could do anyway.

But most of us lived paycheck to paycheck when we were young, so it would have been spent sooner rather than later.

Or lost during the 2008 Bush meltdown...

And something I did do.

But it would have been nice to have used SS money that way as well.

No argument, obviously my way offers options, your way demands a coerced cookie-cutter solution. Liberalism, ideas so go they have to be mandatory.

[Gunny]

Government program. The military.

Was wondering who was going to try and credit him with WWII. Have to admit I was expecting a conspiracy theory though.

Mobilizing the industry of this nation got us out of the Depression and it was nothing but happenstance that FDR was President. Not to mention he decided to extend his kingship a little longer than any other President. He was the beginning of the modern-era leftwing propaganda machine.