Reply #11: Money in the bank with removal of earnings ceiling.... [View All]

Social Security is a program that benefits our ENTIRE society with many features not economically available in private sector investments such as survivors and disability guarantees. It has been proven over generations to provide a GUARTANTEED level of income and dignity for ALL of our retired citizens. I have contributed knowing that the money I was paying in was being used to provide for my grandparents then my parents and that helped to make their lives secure. It is a cross-generation covenant to provide for a future of basic fiscal security for everyone in our society. Eliminate the earnings ceiling and it will be on a totally sound financial footing for perpetuity and provide an opportunity for the CEO’s and wealthiest to give something back to the society that has enriched them so much. Privatization is good for the more affluent sector of the public but is not good for our country as a whole especially the largest growing segment of the American working class who are living paycheck to paycheck and the working poor. This is another repuke wedge issue and I can see greed and the repuke spin machine driving it into the heart of working class Americans if it is not debunked vigorously.