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To: IceShark who wrote (37917)	6/5/2000 1:41:00 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

< "I am due my SS" attitude among many retirees, kept flamed by organizations like AARP, where retirees that are well fixed think SS is owed to them not only as a birth right but also because they kicked into the scheme.> Well, but unfortunately that's the way it was promised and set up... you can call SS any time you want, and get an actuary print out of everything you've paid in and your monthly benefits apon different retirement ages. I do agree, that people of means have NO business getting government checks, it's ludicrous... but they should really change the whole thing and make it welfare then right?? I mean you can even argue that rich people should have the right to say take the money and give it to needy, or charities right?? Who in their right mind want the government to keep it? DAK

To: IceShark who wrote (37917)	6/5/2000 2:52:00 PM
From: Charles P. Hubbard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

IS , I understand your frustration. I would accept a closing out of SS, but would like to receive my residual balance in the process. Many things are out of whack with regards the oldsters. I go into a restaurant and they insist on giving me a senior discount. I don't need a discount now; when I was a young father with a wife and four children and a modest salary, I would have welcomed a discount for young families, but now I am better off than the young people, and most of the old friends of mine are also well off. Responsible folks of my age don't need help as we lived in remarkably good times. There will always be those who fail to take care of themselves, but I don't believe they should get such generous benefits from the more disciplined folks. Put them on the "poor farm" like we used to. TO hell with this dignity crap. Dignity is for folks who have earned it. I don't think our ideas are that far apart. Regards, CPH PS AARP is far too liberal for me.