So I guess the consensus is that there are less obvious ways for Congress to achieve the same result.  Wouldn't you think, that in regards to means testing SS, that a persons savings/lifetime earnings ratio would be taken into consideration and the higher the ratio perhaps the lower their ss tax rat...

Don't mean to sound too tinfoily here but does anyone besides me hesitate a little to continue to put money into IRA's/Roth IRA's considering the way things are going in this country?  I don't just mean investment risk, but confiscation risk, etc. through "legislative action" such as the i...

Thanks for all of your responses.  Sometimes some reassuring words from others who are coming from the same place helps a great deal.  I was a very inattentive investor during the dot.com bust, with all of my investments among different funds of one co.  so thought I was well diversified.  If any of...

Hi- I'm new to this forum although i've been visiting the site for over a year.  Was all in on the PP late last year and through the first quarter of this year, but nerves  got the best of me, what with the European situation, etc.  Re-read Harry Browne's book, been reading the forum, etc. and decid...