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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (398213)7/12/2008 2:56:11 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) of 1577188
 
Chris, > It works the way it's ALWAYS worked.

I'm pretty sure that most people don't realize the way it's always worked. Even Al Gore said, "Most people think Social Security is a program where the government saves your money and gives it back to you when you retire."

If most people want "welfare for the elderly," then they should at least be honest with what it is. A tax on working Americans to supplement the income of retirees.

> The people who cooked it up weren't idiots. They assumed that it would run into demographic problems, which is why the system is flexible.

Any system is "flexible." Just change it.

The people who came up with Social Security never imagined that the worker-to-retiree ratio will eventually dwindle down to 2:1. What will that cost us, Chris?

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