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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (196771)	8/11/2006 11:33:55 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

And a SS tax (employer's contribution) on every robot in the country putting an employee out of work. Why not just retrain the employees to maintain and program the robots, and expand our robotic manufacturing base? Because the logic could easily be applied to all of those mom and pop general stores who were put out of business by shopping malls. It is the way of things.. The government has a responsibility to create employment opportunities via retraining of their workforce to meet the demands of the corporate sector, not to restrict innovation and productivity advances. But since we're "waxing reactionary", I'd like to see SS entitlements be restored to the levels they constituted of the Federal Budget back in the 1950s. As it stands right now, 50% of all Federal spending is represented by entitlement programs. Hawk

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