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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chalu2 who wrote (11678)	2/20/2000 2:43:00 PM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 769670

chalu, I was referring to the removal of initiative in taking the responsibility for providing for one's own future, or allowing the immediate family and community to provide needed assistance. The part that, really, bothers me is that, if a person had the opportunity to take the same amount of money deducted from each paycheck, not to mention the matching amount required of the employer, and invest it for himself, at retirement age, he would have, at least, three times the amount of funds than under the SSA system. It is a relatively minor point but, each of these individual responsibilities that the federal government takes away from the citizen, is one small step toward government being "Big Daddy", and consequently "Big Brother" in the Orwellian sense. The economy is strong now but, during a number of spells after Social Security was instituted, it was far from healthy. The many programs like social security have led to a plethora of "civil servants" who sit around doing very little, and even that in an inefficient manner, wasting more taxpayers' money. ~H~