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To: BWAC who wrote (60088)	6/28/2002 9:47:47 PM
From: Jerome	Respond to of 77400

BWAC...Mindmeldd is fortunate that he works for a good company....how about those people today that are being fired from Worlcom, or those in the past month fired by Enron, or Global Crossing. Social Security is a forced savings plan that few would undertake on their own initiative.There were two periods of time in American history that Social Security would have helped a lot. The Draught years of 1882 to 1885, and the dust bowl years of 1933 to 1936. Thousands died of hardship and starvation...no one made enough money to save for anything. I suggest you read some of the depression era writers, such as Erskine Caldwell (Tobacco Road) Most of Steinbeck, aqnd some of the oral histories from your local libraries that deal with these topics.(W.P.A.* recorded histories) My historical reading would indicate that in the early thirties this country was heading toward socialism and only WW11 and the introduction of Social Security postponed the matter. I'm reading a book now about the Wobblies (of 1917) and their attempts to organize the farm workers of that era. A novel that deal with that topic is Zane Grey's "Desert of Wheat" . W.P.A. stands for Works Progress Association...a Roosevelt program to employ Americans. JMO...Jerome