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Originally Posted by rubicon

Hi buggyone: glad to see you are well. Social Security for our generation is sacrosant. Many of us pleaded with the government long ago to release our deductions so we could invest our earnings in a manner we felt would meet our future needs. Those pleadings fell on deaf ears because politicians wanted a fund to draw from for their self-interests. Advance to today and now many of these same politicans are criticizing us for defending our investment with terms such as "entitlements" Now they are complaining that social security will go broke while inferring that greedy retirees are responsible when we know that if politicians kept their greedy hands out of the social security fund it would have been well funded. So in the end who suffers? That is obviously a rhetorical question. If the social security fund had been handled as an investment, a very conservative one at that, there would never have been a need to restrict the CPI and benefits could have been better.

Here is another example of what happens with government interference.

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Right on the money!!