can SS be saved by buying stocks?

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Thu Jul 29 09:18:28 PDT 1999


Doug wrote about Social Security:


> [Of course the question in the subject heading implies that it needs
> to be saved, which it doesn't, but...]

Doug, what do you think of the exchange between Mark Weisbrot and Robert Greenstein in the pages of the Nation? The combatants weren't really allotted enough space to make their statistical arguments very clear, I thought. But Greenstein seems to be generally a man of good will and certainly deft with a calculator. Is he right that Social Security does need some saving?

Seth



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