Solvency of Social Security

“Social Security 101” (editorial, April 13) makes the assumption that all of the personae offering solutions to the projected meltdown of the Social Security fund some decades from now have in mind, first and foremost, the continuity of the system. Au contraire, mon ami. Although the Republican pit bulls have quit their public howling for the total abolition of Social Security, they have never abandoned this as their ultimate goal.

Privatization of Social Security, separating responsibility for the fund from federal control, is the first step on the way to oblivion. Should the American public be hoodwinked into believing in the viability of this design, within a short time, these “saviors” will also “discover” that employer contributions to the fund are no longer “appropriate.” Then what?

EARL CARTER

Beverly Hills

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The political pundits predict the Social Security Trust Fund may collapse and have come up with typical solutions, i.e. raising taxes and privatization of some funds by investing in personal security accounts. This has potential for disaster, for obvious reasons.

How about returning the billions of dollars the Treasury Department has borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund to keep the budget deficit down! We hear nothing about this from our financial geniuses in government.

ANITA FRESCO

Los Angeles