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Submitted by alltrac on June 6, 2006
Category: Social Issues
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Imagine you worked all your life at the Bethlehem steel factory right here in PA, which until recently was one of the biggest steel manufacturers in the world. Now imagine that you are retired, you get a nice pension, you have full benefits, and on top of all that you get your social security check. Or should I say you did. Just last year Bethlehem steel came out of bankruptcy court and the government allowed them to no longer have to pay their pension or medical benefits in order to stay afloat. Thank god you have your social security check coming or you would be out on the street. But what if it was the year 2050 and social security was bankrupt. What would you do then? The U.S. government is in debt, the trade deficit keeps increasing, so how can we as tax paying citizens be confident that when we are ready to retire we will all get paid the full benefits that are promised today. To understand the issues surrounding the heated debate over social security we must look at all the history and facts concerning the current system, understand that the system must be changed to benefit our economy, and look at the solutions proposed by the Democrats and Republicans to see that privatized accounts are the only feasible choice for social security reform.
Social Security was created in 1935 by Theodore Roosevelt after the Great Depression. It was an attempt to bring back confidence in the American public that their future was secure by creating a safety net. Its main objective was to protect the elderly from poverty and social security may have done more to help the poor than any other government program in American history, reducing old age poverty from 50% in the 1930s to around 10% today. It uses a heavily skewed benefit formula that pays lower income workers a higher percentage of their earnings before retirement (around 60%) and higher income workers only get about 30% of their earnings. (Porter) So it basically distributes wealth from the rich to...
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