A new Wonk Room analysis finds that that a retiree with a private Social Security account invested in stocks — along the lines of the plan envisioned by President Bush and supported by John McCain in 2005 — would have lost approximately $26,000 if he or she had retired on Oct. 1, 2008, after 35 years of contributions to such an account:
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