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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (425171)7/10/2003 4:58:36 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Gee, why don't we just make it a death penalty offense to be rich?
Why give them any rights at all? Maybe they should have to wear yellow stars.

So it's OK to pay into SS and Medicare for 40 or 45 years as a company executive, but you can never collect?

You're obviously just trying to agitate me, but just to clarify, I don't see any reason for young people to get 0 or negative returns on a ponzi scheme SS "insurance program" (sic) while the elderly voting block votes in colas and other increases so that they get returns of 10x-100x on their money in the same system. This is just common sense. Should the wealthy get their money back from SS? Absolutely YES. Lets shut the system down right now, all those over 60 get their money and leave it at that. New participants can opt out, that is the answer.

As a true republican (you sure don't sound like one BTW)- you know that entitlement programs and freebies for the middle class don't work. If you create a giant welfare state for literally every citizen for 40% of their life, and act like its a god given right to collect 10x your money in this "system", you will bankrupt the other half of the population that has to pay for the scam.

The solution is for the SS system to revert to what it was originally intended to be- a SAFETY NET for the elderly. The wealthy elderly should get their money back at some reasonable level of simple interest and leave it at that. That is sure more than my generation will ever get out of the scheme. Once we pay out to this current crop, shut the system down.
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