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Social Security Wins Over Personal Accounts Investing, Under One Man's Retirement Math
The Christian Science Monitor 
Dec. 27, 2004
Excerpt: He recorded all the payroll taxes he paid into the system (including the ... employer [match]), tracked down the return the Social Security Trust Fund earned for each of the 45 years, and then compared the result with what he would have gotten had he been able to invest the same amount of payroll tax money over the same period in the Dow Jones Industrial Average .... To his surprise, the Social Security investment won out: $261,372 versus $255,499, a difference of $5,873.
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