Thanks to the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal for bringing this to my attention:

In 1983, current Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid offered HR 3589, a bill to exempt all Federal employees, including members of Congress, from the Social Security system.

Here is a Library of Congress link to a summary of the bill. Since the bill apparently didn’t go anywhere, there is not a lot of very interesting specific information.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d098:6:./temp/~bdHZTy:@@@L&summ2=m&

It is yet another indication that those who understand Social Security best are the most anxious to find a way not to participate….while forcing the rest of us to pay into government’s pyramid scheme.

It comes down to this: Most Democrats in DC only oppose Social Security reform because they want to keep the citizens dependent on government. They don’t care that it’s a fraud, that it keeps poor people poor, that it discriminates against women and minorities, and that it is neither insurance nor investment of any sort. They just want YOUR money.