Social Security Reform Must Incorporate Stock Market Investments Imagine you’re 65, have made a decent living, and are looking forward to an enjoyable retirement with the help of social security. You have taken care of yourself to insure a healthy life beyond retirement and as a reward, the government is going to turn around and withhold your benefits an additional five years because social security cannot afford to pay you. But you are not surprised. …showed first 75 words of 868 total…

…showed last 75 words of 868 total…gives back more than you put in is rewarding and will restore faith in the national retirement system. It will also instill intrinsic motivation to learn basic investing at an early age. With this in mind, people will be more likely to invest money of their own. I know I would be encouraged to make some riskier investments of my own knowing that there will be something to fall back on if I need it.