February 24, 2011 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

“I’m 50 years old, I’ve been paying in for 30+ years. Let me tell you how bad the math is on Social Security: I would sign a document if you would let, denying all of my Social Security rights, you wouldn’t have to pay me a dime, you could keep everything I’ve paid you for 30+ years if you would just let me not pay you anymore, and in the remaining 20 to 30 years I have left to work, what I would have paid in, I would make 40 or 50 times more on that money than what I would have made had I paid in my entire life. Government retirement plans? Does this not sound like something that sucks at its core? That’s cuz it does” Dave Ramsey