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To: Lane3 who wrote (91245)	12/18/2004 11:05:29 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) of 793801

i thought soc sec was a forced savings plan.. i didn't volunteer to have the money taken out of my pay. No, it's a tax. <g> The Annie Oakley and the Lone Ranger days are over. Get used to it. You can't go it alone. You live in an interconnected world. You can't billow foul air and smoke from your little homestead without polluting other people's air. The trick however is to do some things together (do it in a smart way) and not have to do everything together. National Security is probably something everyone agrees that we should do together - but even there - we have to be smart about. If we do stupid things with our military, the remedy is not to do away with the military but to manage the military better. The Super Bowl is something else that we do together as a nation. I don't even like football, but I participate anyway. With the Super Bowl, you have a choice. If you do not participate, you will not be missed. However, Social Security is one of the few things we do together as a nation. You are required to participate. If you can opt out, the system will not work. The Social Security program is an insurance policy the we must take out to guarantee that we do not have a lot of elderly in dire financial straits. Social Security is a a good thing. But just because it is mismanaged does not mean we have to get rid of it - we just have to make it work. If you do away with a mandatory social security plan, the Annie Oakleys and the Lone Rangers can probably do okay, but a lot of elderly would be in trouble and we would have to have some other plan to take care of that mess. Of course Annie Oakley and the Lone Ranger can always say, I worked hard and managed my finances, if you screwed up - that's your problem - screw you. The reality is that the days of Annie Oakley and the Lone Ranger are over and are not coming back. Get used to it.

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