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Originally Posted by Loryn
I agree with you Sly. People don't get their own thinking. I laughed out loud when I read Kane's post. So many people think just like him. They don't plan their own retirements they just rely on the government. I will not take SS. I plan on handling myself, like we all should. SS is there for people who fall on hard times. This is the problem with America today. People are relying too much on the government to support them. Look at California.
Now just image how government health care will turn out, which some people call free health care or universal, because then it doesn't sound like what it is government health care. SS, which over the years people became dependant on as you can see and do not plan their own lives, is a big government program and it failed!!! Now what happens when the government health care fails??? You're going to have a whole country depending on it and the whole health care industry depending on the government. It belongs in the private sector, or it will fail. People from all over the world come to America for surgeries because our health care is in the hands of the people, not a corrupt government.
Government should be there for people who fall on hard times, not there to support everything and everyone who have the ability to support themselves, but would rather have a free hand out. This socialist way of thinking is disgusting, wimpy, uneducated, and a group of followers who are easily scared by words. Stop looking at the government for your answers, they are not it, WE ARE!!!
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For starters I am planning for my own retirement and I am doing it in a way where I am assuming that I won't have social security. Maybe when I get to that age it will still be there and I can draw it. Maybe it will be so torn down that I will only be able to draw a small amount and it won't be enough to live on and maybe it will be completely gone. I am operating on the assumption that I won't be able to rely on it so I am saving my money accordingly.
I don't look to the government for answers, but I don't think having a safety net in place for people is a terrible idea. Let me ask you this. If something terrible happened to you tomorrow and you were forever disabled and had to live the rest of your life unable to work or even really care for yourself do you have enough set aside that you could not only care for yourself (as in buy food and pay rent ect) but also provide for any medical care you might need? Do you have enough that you could do this for the rest of your life?
Social security isn't just for people who are old and retired, it is for people who get sick, hurt or whatever and can no longer care for themselves. I have no problem (and said so in my post) with people being able to take a small amount of their social security and putting it aside in an account of their own. I just think cutting it out completely would be a disaster. I'm not a whining socialist. I don't want the government to take care of me. I don't want a bunch of free hand outs. I simply think having a safety net in place is a good idea.