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To: Dennis Doubleday who wrote (59536)5/16/2002 2:17:03 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 77397
 
No. Eating dirt is no fun. But why force everyone to get negative returns on their dollar, thinking misguidedly that you are helping the poor? The way to help the poor is to make everyone richer. You can do that by investing social security proceeds in the markets. Then there will be alot more money to help those poor people. The truth is that we can continue down the current path, until NO ONE benefits from social security, including the poor people who you want to help using your short sighted logic. Or we can acknowledge that the current system is doomed to failure and start somewhere.

The fact is that we are going to have to pay the tab sooner or later. I say we start paying it now and reduce pork spending to cover the tab. Like someone else said on these threads, the government should be held accountable for their books like every individual and corporation in America. Then we can start solving problems like this, rather than spending $180B on farm subsidies, most of which go to large corporations, rather than the poor fragile farmer they tell the public it goes to.

Bottom line is that Democrats use short term thinking to help the poor. The way to help the poor is to think long term. Let's solve long term problems with long term solutions, not short term solutions.
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