Social Security's Shifting Role in Retirement Plans

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That all seems well and good except when you get a letter from Medicare telling you the only way you can get drug coverage is with a 5 star program and there are no programs you are left without coverage. Sneaky way to cut benefits from seniors.

How low can they go

Jo Ann of IL 10:26PM March 30, 2012

Congress, stop messing with our Social Security. That is our money, not yours to mishandle. You will be called to answer for destroying our retirement funds. You must stop using our funds for your purpose. Turn the administration of our money to an independent body to manage our retirement funds. The Constitution should be modified to make retirement funds untouchable by the politicians.

Tony Sabga of CA 3:53PM December 12, 2011

Another dispatch from the propaganda war designed to get younger middle-aged people used to the idea of ending Social Security. Think of the frog in the pan of water on slow boil.

As Mr. Moeller surely knows, SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT THE PROBLEM, HEALTH CARE IS. Social Security is easy to fix. One thing NOT to do is extend the so-called payroll tax holiday; one thing TO do is raise the cap on taxed income.

pacifico of OR 6:46PM October 14, 2011

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Philip Moeller, contributing editor for U.S. News Money, writes about achieving success and happiness in older age.

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