I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.
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We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.
We can't reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, 'Let's get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.'
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.
I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.
An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.
In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
You can't be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
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