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Originally Posted by CelticSire
Yeah, I've been paying attention for the last 23 years which included multiple combat tours and a knee that will never be right again. If I'm really lucky, when I turn age 60, I can draw about 2,000 a month as a retired CSM with 30 years on the books. And now some jack wagon wants to convert my retirement? Make it into a 401K? Where is the government going to get the 23 years worth of matching funds? Or am I supposed to just suck it up and drive on while the powers that be continue to draw their pensions? I'll tell you what, when Congress as a whole lives in a rat hole for 18 months on rationed food and water, puts up with daily IEDs, mortars, and sniper fire, when they have to write letters home to parents, then maybe I'll listen to their harebrained ideas about how my retirement should be jacked with.
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I think you misunderstand me,my whole point is not that anything should be taken away from you,rather that if it were me I would want my funds in my name to avoid the probability that ten years down the road Congerss decides they can't afford your pension and must cut it.Three weeks ago the president made a statement that if the debt ceiling were not raised SS checks might not go out,I think they would have but there could come a time when that could be a reality.
If they came out with a plan to do something similar with SS how many people under 50 do you think would complain?I bet not many.