It is a fundamental compact between the people and their government – and therefore it is dangerous to change because generations have come to count upon it. Still, are there ways to reduce the burden on future generations? Can there be an option for individual investment accounts? Should benefits be indexed to inflation? Should the retirement age be changed?
Dirty Little Secret - Universal Healthcare? Social Security?Robert Bigham, DC - Thu, 10/18/2007 - 6:52pm
All of the other Nations with universal health care systems are not on the verge of Bankruptcy. We are... In fact we owe them money because our own Federal reserve can't even print enough money for this government to spend. We have problems to fix before we create more for future generations Health care, Social Security, Medicaid, David Walker, 60 minutes, |
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| The Future of Retirement Income: With or Without Federal Social Security? | 30 | 01/02/2008 - 4:35pm |
| Social Security and Congressional Retirement Program | 0 | 12/31/2007 - 1:58pm |
| Social Security | 1 | 12/15/2007 - 6:31am |
| The sustaining path | 2 | 11/29/2007 - 5:34am |
| The termination path | 3 | 11/28/2007 - 4:35am |
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| Bogus Social Security, credit cards stashed under bed, feds say (WQAD Moline) | 01/02/2008 - 4:25pm |
| Laptop with 332K Social Security numbers stolen from once-fired employee's desk (The Tennessean) | 01/02/2008 - 12:18pm |
| Blog: First baby boomers eligible for Social Security (Newsday) | 01/02/2008 - 11:40am |
| Government sites list Social Security numbers (Charleston Daily Mail) | 01/02/2008 - 5:55am |
| Time Social Security carefully (The Salinas Californian) | 01/02/2008 - 5:14am |
| Report: Social Security numbers remain unsecured (USA Today) | 01/02/2008 - 5:03am |
| Social Security numbers are easy to find (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) | 01/02/2008 - 3:15am |
