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A 5 page paper arguing that Social Security does not need dramatic reform, though it does need to be strengthened for the future. The paper recommends that younger workers, particularly those employed by businesses not offering 401(k) plans, be given incentives to save for retirement in addition to the money paid into Social Security. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSsocSecRefrmNo.rtf
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Promised shortfalls in the future, rising demand that the government allow individuals to manage their own retirement investing and dwindling cash reserves in Social Securitys surplus accounts all give justification
to calls for privatizing Social Security. Some of the arguments have merit, but some also border on decimating Social Security as we know it. There is a middle
ground, one in which Social Security does not need to be totally overhauled, only tweaked. Background When Social Security was implemented in the
1930s, the economy was midway through the Great Depression and had been stalled literally for years. People had no confidence at all in the private sector, and turned to
the government to help the thousands of suffering souls who desperately wanted to work to feed their families and to assist those who were unable to work, even if jobs
had been available for them. Franklin Roosevelts vision of Social Security may have been able to navigate the political process as a purely social program, but it probably could
not have done so as a permanent program. To build support for such a radical notion as instituting social welfare for the aged, politicians of the day - including
Roosevelt himself - promoted the plan as one in which individuals would pay into the system over the course of their working lives, then begin drawing out at retirement age
what they had paid in. Of course Social Security never has worked this way and was never intended to work this way.
Current benefits are paid from current deposits, with surplus funds placed in trust for future use as demographics change and there are fewer active workers for each retiree. As
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