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To: Joe NYC who wrote (173916)	8/15/2003 5:28:21 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575775

Well, third way is to have more kids who will turn into taxpayers. A little bit of money that is allowed to grow for 40 years or 50 years will go a lot farther than a lot of money that grows for 20 years or 30 years. If a chunk of SS is privatized so that it can grow at stock market or commercial paper rates rather than money-market rates, and it is allowed to grow for more years (40 or 50 or 60), AND the economy begins to churn which brings more money into the system, then SS can be stablized over a period of years so that some kind of equillibrium is reached. But this requires a confluence of events that seems awfully unlikely, particularly given the political environment in which the Dems use it as a political weapon against the Republicans. In my view.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (173916)	8/15/2003 5:34:28 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575775

Joe, the fourth way is to reduce the benefits paid by SS. Now watch as liberals accuse me of wanting to starve the elderly. Tenchusatsu

To: Joe NYC who wrote (173916)	8/16/2003 4:43:21 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Respond to of 1575775

Joe, Re: < This may seem funny to you. Maybe you are so detached from real life that you don't know the struggle young families go through. Why do you think people have so few children, or no children at all? Many reasons: not finding the right partner, comfort, medical problems, but of those who can, after adding it up, many realize that they can't afford it. The young couple has no choice about feeding the retirees (jail is the consequence of not paying taxes) so they have to sacrifice the young to feed the old.> LOL. One of the reasons to have kids in the past was so somebody'd support you in your dotage. Why'n hell would anybody want Kids and SS? Obviously, I'm kidding to a degree; but... -tgp