Social Security is America's most vigorous family program. With it, families are protected not just in retirement, but in tragedy - sudden death, disability or disaster. Its benefits go to workers, to spouses, to children. The contrast with all recommendations for private accounts are stark and clear. Social Security provides family based benefits for spouses and children, literally widows and orphans.
Private accounts offer no such guarantee.
It provides support for the families of those who are disabled through no fault of their own. Private accounts offer no such guarantee. Those who stand for family values should join us in the fight to save Social Security. There is no more important program for families - for traditional families in which one parent stays home with the children, for families in which both parents work, for families struck by sudden tragedy. Every program to privatize or partially privatize Social Security by definition turns the program away from supporting families and towards individual risk.