re: #459 Slumbering Behemoth

When it comes to the privatization of Social Security, it would seem to do so would result in people investing their own money in the ways that they please. Which folks can already do.

So… when one invokes “privatization” in this sense, how is it different than saying “completely abolish SS altogether”? Seriously, I am ignorant of the details here.

I don’t know. I ask questions when it comes up around here, but I’ve never gotten an answer to my last question, which is, “OK, what about the guy who lost all his SS money in the stock market? How do we pay for him to not die in a cardboard box on Main Street?”

If someone could explain that part to me, I might be more amenable to the whole idea, but as it is, it just sounds like getting rid of SS altogether.