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Should Social Security benefits be abolished?
Results so far:
| Yes | 18% | 232 votes | Total: 1275 votes | |
| No | 82% | 1043 votes |
Yes
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Created on: March 07, 2010 Last Updated: March 08, 2010
Social Security is a program that was established based upon: misleading arguments, intentional falsehoods,
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Created on: June 14, 2009 Last Updated: June 15, 2009
As with most of these debate questions, the question itself is so misleading and polarizing that it
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by Tom Klein
Created on: August 24, 2008
Social Security benefits and the social security system should be abolished. The system is bankrupt,
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Created on: June 22, 2007
Much has been said recently about the viability of the Social Security program. Millions of Americans
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by Art West
Created on: February 27, 2009
In 1935 the President Franklin Roosevelt scammed the American public by signing into law the Social
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Created on: June 22, 2007
Many years ago there was not such thing as Social Security. People did not think about how soon they
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by Bobby Keith
Created on: June 30, 2009
When Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935, it was intended to be
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Created on: June 22, 2007
Proponents for the abolition of Social Security make a strong case based on Washington's irresponsibility
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Created on: June 06, 2007
As a man in his late 20's who is looking forward to the possibility of retiring early, I hate the idea
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by Mark Bearing
Created on: February 02, 2012
The salient issue when talking about U.S. Social Security in today's times does not have anything to
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Created on: August 31, 2007
The Social Security system that America has in place right now should be abolished and replaced with -
Created on: June 23, 2007
In 1935 President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law. It was a great moment to many in the United
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Created on: September 12, 2007
Social Security had a great start with good intentions but it was a programme destined for failure.
Social
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Created on: July 23, 2008
Suppose someone woke up in the morning and decided to start a new retirement program. Participants in
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Created on: July 30, 2007
The entire concept of social security can really be summed up into one word: ridiculous. I'm not even
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Created on: June 22, 2007
I am going to go out on a limb here and say that social security benefits should be abolished. This
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Created on: June 23, 2007 Last Updated: February 16, 2010
Social Security simply can not be abolished, but given the financial challenges of the system, it must
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by Beata Levai
Created on: June 22, 2007 Last Updated: April 26, 2010
Some people believe social security will run out by the time they hit retirement, and that also think
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No
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Created on: February 16, 2009 Last Updated: April 21, 2010
The basic premise of America's Social Security program is a sound one. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt,
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Created on: January 19, 2010
The majority of the answers on the debate of “Should Social Security Be Abolished” are
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by Liz McGuire
Created on: June 21, 2007
The main reason Social Security should not be abolished is the fact that life never turns out the way
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Created on: June 22, 2007
No. If nothing else, it's about survivors.
The overwhelming majority of people collecting Social Security
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by Myra Watters
Created on: September 16, 2008
Social Security should not be abolished. There are too many Americans depending on the System. For many
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by B. L. Babb
Created on: July 31, 2008 Last Updated: November 10, 2008
For decades, our parents and possibly even grandparents were required to pay into a pool of money called
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Created on: October 17, 2009
It is inconceivable that a program which is based in involuntary payments over the lifetime of a worker
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Created on: April 05, 2008
If Social Security benefits were abolished, especially if the government doesn't replace it with something
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by Me...Again
Created on: June 22, 2007
Social security cannot be abolished at this point, unless it is replaced with a different program that
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Created on: October 29, 2007 Last Updated: February 16, 2010
I feel that social security benefits are far too easy to obtain especially to people who have just arrived
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Created on: July 26, 2007
Social Security, a relatively new phenomenon in US history, may well be on its way out as we know it.
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Created on: June 22, 2007
OK, I am at retirement age but have not retired yet. Social security does not pay enough to cover my
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by J. de Salvo
Created on: May 28, 2008
Let's face it, we all hate being hit up for change. And yet there's always some circumstance in which
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by Ted Sherman
Created on: June 22, 2007
Hey, don't do it! This retiree is already eating the cheapest brand of canned cat food. Pulleeeze! If
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by Jerry Curtis
Created on: June 22, 2007
Our Social Security system should be phased out in favor of a government subsidized or guaranteed private
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Created on: March 31, 2008
Social security benefits should not be abolished. It is true that the social security benefits system
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Created on: September 06, 2007 Last Updated: August 10, 2008
We definitely do not need to do away with Social Security! Social Security does need to be revised.
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Created on: June 22, 2007 Last Updated: September 23, 2008
While there is a geat deal of talk of the Social Security program being abolished,this artcle will explain
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by Robert Moran
Created on: December 12, 2007 Last Updated: August 25, 2009
Social Security should not be abolished. I read the same alarms coming from Washington and the media
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by Ed Finn
Created on: July 05, 2007
Introduction
The U.S. Social Security System celebrated its 70th anniversary this year. It is a system
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