re: Texas GOP member of house introduces bill to radically change social security

Politicians stole S/S. Don't get me started. I watched back in the eighties when the crooks in Washington pulled a bait-and-switch on S/S funding. George Bush II wanted to create fully funded IRA's for workers. Believe the cost was estimated at $ 1.5 trillion. Never happened. Instead the so-called Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and Goldman Sachs et al got most (if not all) of the money. The politicians got a slush fund (bogus S/S Trust Fund) and we (future retirees) got screwed.

Want to know the scary part? Had the Republicans not taken over the House (believe it was back in 2010) the democrats were planning to confiscate all IRA and 401k's. Democrat Senator Tom Harkin headed a Congressional Committee looking into the feasibility of confiscating those private retirement accounts.

I have not doubt had Hillary won the election she would have attempted (again) to confiscate those IRA's and 401k's and IMO the Republicans would have let her.

So now along comes this politician........