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	<title>Saving Social Security</title>
	
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		<title>What Does Social Security Mean To You?</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/04/what-does-social-security-mean-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly Forty-Seven Million (47,000,000) Americans receive Social Security benefits today; and nearly 70% (33,000,000) of them depend on those benefits for 50% or more of their entire income. Without Social Security, what would these 33,000,000 people do&#8230;what would you do? &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/04/what-does-social-security-mean-to-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in America</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/03/investing-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my book Saving Social Security &#8211; A Commonsense Solution, I talk about my opposition to self-directed individual investment accounts within Social Security. There are many reasons I oppose this&#8230;first it can not be done without having to substantially increase &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/03/investing-in-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Entitlement Is Not A Dirty Word!</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/03/entitlement-is-not-a-dirty-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Security and Medicare are government run entitlement programs. Participants contribute to these programs throughout their working careers through the payment of taxes levied on their wages in exchange for future benefits. Participants are therefore ENTITLED to benefits in exchange &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/03/entitlement-is-not-a-dirty-word/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment Falling?</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/02/unemployment-falling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the Huffington Post indicated that the unemployment rate is falling, now down to 8.3 percent. This is good news&#8230;right? It is if true. However, when an unemployed worker exhausts his/her unemployment benefits they are no longer counted &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/02/unemployment-falling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security Absent From Debate</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/02/social-security-absent-from-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida&#8230;a state well know to have one of the nations largest populations of retirees. A presidential candidate debate is held for the republican candidates and none mention Social Security. Even the moderator steered clear of the subject. Do you find &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/02/social-security-absent-from-debate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security Is The Ideal Issue</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/01/soc-sec-the-ideal-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://savingsocialsecurity.net/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Social Security is the ideal issue.  It&#8217;s one of many, according to polls, where both parties are out of step with voters.  After seeing their savings, pension plans, and housing values destroyed, people are frightened about their retirement security. They &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/01/soc-sec-the-ideal-issue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security &amp; Self-Directed Retirement Accounts</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/01/social-security-self-directed-accounts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://savingsocialsecurity.net/?p=349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some presidential candidates and many in congress favor the privatization of Social Security through the phased in inclusion of self-directed retirement accounts. Such accounts would allow younger workers to direct a portion of their employment taxes into mutual funds managed by &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/01/social-security-self-directed-accounts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Should the Rich Lose Their Social Security benefits?</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/01/should-the-rich-lose-their-social-security-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the question that was posed in a recent article on DailyFinance.com. The makes some interesting observations in this article and draws the conclusion that means testing would be counter-productive&#8230;the cost of administering such test would out-weigh the savings &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/01/should-the-rich-lose-their-social-security-benefits/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security and Employment Tax Reduction</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/01/employment-tax-reduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress recently passed a temporary extension of the employment tax  reduction  rates. This reduction was originally passed two years ago as a means to help stimulate the economy. The concept was simple&#8230;by reducing the amount of employment taxes withheld from worker &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2012/01/employment-tax-reduction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security Reserves, a Conflict of Interest?</title>
		<link>http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2011/12/conflict-of-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us are completely unaware of how our money in the Social Security reserves are invested or what type of returns they are generated. Currently the only thing that Social Security reserves can be invested in is Special Issue &#8230; <a href="http://savingsocialsecurity.net/2011/12/conflict-of-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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