If you care so much about African-Americans, why don't you speak to the NAACP?

This rankles me. As does this whole privatization business.

Krugman points out that it's not just retirees that benefit from Social Security but those on disabilities. I want to add that this includes people with mental disabilities. Do people struggling with mental illness have the capacity or the wherewithal to decide in which private funds to invest? With changes to the SS system, the mentally ill will fall between the cracks even more than they already do.