Comments on: France Raising Retirement Age, When Will It Come Stateside? http://weakonomics.com/2010/05/25/france-raising-retirement-age-when-will-it-come-stateside/ Everything That's Wrong With You And Your Money Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer http://weakonomics.com/2010/05/25/france-raising-retirement-age-when-will-it-come-stateside/comment-page-1/#comment-4116 Kosmo @ The Casual Observer Wed, 26 May 2010 13:51:50 +0000 http://weakonomics.com/?p=4301#comment-4116 "President W Bush, in all his failings, tried to reform the Social Security problem. But no one was listening, we were too obsessed with other issues during his presidency." Well, AARP also tried to actively kill the movement toward privitization of SS accounts. I'd love to have some control over my SS money. The SSA itself provides this nifty chart for internal real rates of return: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/ran5/an2004-5.html The first set of tables is the rate of return with the current system, the others sets of table relate to proposed changes. Think you can beat your rate? :) .-= Kosmo @ The Casual Observer´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCasualObserver/~3/HpV6R2nPTi8/" rel="nofollow">Proof That Obama’s Birth Certificate Is Fake</a> =-. “President W Bush, in all his failings, tried to reform the Social Security problem. But no one was listening, we were too obsessed with other issues during his presidency.”

Well, AARP also tried to actively kill the movement toward privitization of SS accounts.

I’d love to have some control over my SS money. The SSA itself provides this nifty chart for internal real rates of return:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/ran5/an2004-5.html

The first set of tables is the rate of return with the current system, the others sets of table relate to proposed changes.

Think you can beat your rate? :)
.-= Kosmo @ The Casual Observer´s last blog ..Proof That Obama’s Birth Certificate Is Fake =-.

]]> By: Misty Jane http://weakonomics.com/2010/05/25/france-raising-retirement-age-when-will-it-come-stateside/comment-page-1/#comment-4109 Misty Jane Wed, 26 May 2010 00:20:18 +0000 http://weakonomics.com/?p=4301#comment-4109 SS should be a bonus. It was never meant to be a retirement plan. I'd like to see a gov't plan to phase it out (it would take 4 or 5 decades) and force people to plan for themselves. There would have to be exceptions, of course. Some program would have to remain for dependent children who've lost parents. But we ordinary workers need to have our own plans. SS should be a bonus. It was never meant to be a retirement plan. I’d like to see a gov’t plan to phase it out (it would take 4 or 5 decades) and force people to plan for themselves. There would have to be exceptions, of course. Some program would have to remain for dependent children who’ve lost parents. But we ordinary workers need to have our own plans.

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