Every time this is brought up the democrats go wild and start foaming at the mouth.

Well, "getting it back" is a misnomer. We don't look at taxes in that way. I'm paying for current SS recipients. If and when I collect later in life, it won't be my money that I'm getting back. It'll be current SS taxpayers that are funding me.

The draft bill submitted by FDR differed in many interesting respects from the final Social Security Act which emerged from Congress in August 1935. For example, FDR had proposed a three-part program of old-age security consisting of: old-age welfare pensions; compulsory contributory social insurance (what we now think of as Social Security); and a third-tier which would consist of optional annuity certificates sold by the government to workers who, upon retirement, could convert the certificates to monthly annuities which would be used as supplements to their basic Social Security retirement benefit. This third program was among the features of the President's proposals which the Congress did not accept. Many other changes were made in the Administration's proposal, which is reproduced in full below.

It's an entitlement funded by taxes. Bummer it is believed to be otherwise, as if some account exists with your name on it. I assume it won't even be there by the time I get to the collection stage.

Do you not find it interesting that a bunch of people on this forum are lambasting Liberals for failing to engage in discussion and suggesting that it is because their arguments are weak and based on emotion, while at the same time they fail to engage in discussion at sites filled with Liberals?

My point remains. This site wasn't started as a conservative discussion forum, it just happened that the majority of regular posters here are more conservative minded. I want more people to post here in general, including more people with differing view points. Generally speaking, you're not likely to see people name calling here whereas if I posted over at DailyKos, I would likely be immediately insulted for daring to disagree with their narrative. But again, that's a known liberal site. PilotSpin wasn't started to be a conservative site.

I thought he was that kid that played on "The Wonder Years".

My question remains: how many of you participate in discussions at DailyKos or other liberal controlled discussion sites?

When he injects his personal beliefs, he can come across as a loon.  His church is called Latter Day Saints, with latter meaning last.  So there is a world view that things are falling apart and that colors other things. 

But he does better research and presents more in depth analysis that is factually based than anyone else in the industry.  It requires you to adult and shut out the garbage, but when he's on, Beck is brilliant.  I'd split his stuff as 50% brilliant, 35% loon and about 15% humor.