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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Michael M who wrote (71899)1/10/2000 6:37:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (4) of 108807
 
My bottom line on means testing SS is that you can then call the whole damn mess a welfare system. I thought we were trying to move away from that.

I can certainly see why YOU would want to move away from calling a SS a welfare system (for the wealthy), because that would be beneficial for you.

I have no desire to do that, and no, I am not trying to "move away from that". I believe in calling a spade a spade, or a tax a tax. I also think that by pandering to the elderly for so many years, and by removing any stigma that SS is a welfare system, we have created a "welfare state" for a huge number of americans that somehow have convinced themselves that they deserve these 1000% payouts. Means testing will fix the problem, and insure that we are covering the elderly poor which everyone seems to be so concerned about. The fact that there is so much resistance to means testing makes me think the poor is not the issue.
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