SOCIALIST security, you mean

Social Security does not exist to serve as a retirement fund for the middle and upper class. If you want a retirement fund, I suggest a nice 401 (k) plan, which is probably offered by your employer, or an IRA. No, Social Security exists so that we don't find our elders dead in their homes, being gnawed on by rodents, because they found themselves without the funds to buy groceries and/or heating oil. It's a social safety net. The truth is that yeah, Americans should save more, but at the same time, many Americans live paycheck to paycheck and simply don't make enough money both to meet their basic needs and to save for retirement. Even if you are able to save, shit happens. And that is why we have Social Security. Because if shit happens to you, you as a human being and an American deserve not to be gnawed by rodents.

Social Security is inherently redistributive. Make no mistake, that's why the Bush administration and its allies in Congress want to dismantle it. The Bush economic policy team attacks any program that is redistributive, from Pell grants to send poor kids to college to certain elements of our tax code, as a matter of principle. This is a philosophical difference, not a policy difference, between the proponents and opponents of the President's plan to reform* Social Security. For some reason, however, the Democrats in Congress keep framing it as a policy difference. "MWAH MWAH program not really in crisis MWAH MWAH treasury bonds MWAH MWAH"

Get a spine! Say what you mean! We human beings take care of our old, weak, and sick. This is a morality thing, not an accounting thing.

*read: gut and then phase out. Beast-starving at its finest!