The real question here is why a nutcase like the founder of Code Pink is given a platform to spew her nonsense. Leave it up to ABC, NBC and CBS.

I’d like to make a case for privatizing Social Security.

The Rate of Return from a Stock Market Index Fund from 1964 to Today was approximately seven percent. I graduated from college in 1964 and quit working in 1991. I became eligible for SS in 2003 and my wife and I are drawing $26,904 ($18,402 for me and $8,502 for my wife). If 15% of the money I made had been invested in the Index Fund and it stayed there until I was eligible for SS, I would have drawn about $40,000. A more important point is that the estate would be mine to pass on to my heirs.

Put another way I have no SS estate compared to an estate I could have of about $577,000! My SS deductions (both employee and employer) total about $160,000.

I realize that this is simplistic since SS has disability and insurance components. Just imagine what a mechanism even a partial privatizing would do to build an estate for many of our citizens.

More evidence that government should stay out of supporting business ventures. Local, State and Federal governments have been granting tax breaks and loans to entice business to come to their jurisdictions for years which seems to lead to the taxpayer getting jilted. If we want to end this nonsense, we should push for the "Fair Tax Bill". Free enterprise works.