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To: asenna1 who wrote (167662)	8/4/2001 12:57:25 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

The complete and immediate privatization of Social Security would serve to eliminate the MYTH that it is somehow different from any other public spending program. To the extent that it runs a surplus, that is no different from any other description of a government surplus. To the extent that it attains eventual collapse, as any Ponzi scheme is doomed to do, it is no different than any other national bankruptcy. The politicians who pump the fraud of Social Security as some sort of "savings plan" that has assets and profits like a private investment are mostly (but not all) Democrat/Socialists. Move them out of the Congress, and the restructuring of Social Security out of public-sector control can proceed BEFORE the catastrophe of bankruptcy brings it about in spite of future politicians' fraudulent representations. Leave it the way it is, and the disaster will be of biblical proportions...

To: asenna1 who wrote (167662)	8/4/2001 2:22:49 PM
From: alan w	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

Exactly the point back when the Dems were saying the Republican Congress was trying to "starve old ladies and children". They were claiming the Repub's were "cutting" the budget when in reality they were trying to slow the rate of increases. Finally see the light huh? Congratulations. alan w