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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12573)	8/18/2003 12:01:08 AM
From: David Jones	Respond to of 306849

Your going to throw Prop 13 in with SS and medicare. Lets not stretch it that far. SS has been a mess my entire life. I too remember my own parents complaining about the political theft of SS. And medicare it's more or less the same bag. Why do Canadians come to the US for heart operations? Because they'll die on the waiting lists in Canada that why. But I or you can go to Canada and buy prescription drugs for fractions of what it's costing here in the states. What's up with that? I'm not going to need SS or medicare I'm going to milk your generation with high rents and higher property prices. After listing to you I'm going to be just that much more ruthless.)

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12573)	8/18/2003 1:00:30 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<really, take a look at prop 13, social security and medicare, the prescription drug plan and pretty much every Bush tax cut and tell me who is the generation that says "give it to me NOW". Hint- it is your's and tradelite's generation, you are stealing from the young and young people know it. The problem for you is, when you are old, they will vote out your benefits like social security and medicare because they don't give a damn about you, believe me. Your families can provide for you in your later years but you will have no large social programs because you have lost the empathy that group once cast upon you so freely. >> Lizzie, how did this conversation move away from discussing wealthy people in your state who own multiple properties at the alleged expense of young tech-industry workers in your area.... to old folks who need or want government social programs to pull them through? Big disconnect in conversational flow here. And why do you think anyone in my generation is looking to your generation (whichever one that might be, not sure) for "large social programs" in the future? We're all just kinda trying to make it on our own, knowing that government might run out of money someday and not be able to pay all those social security premiums we've paid into all these years. Many of us can afford the so-called "lost empathy" you referred to in your post. We never banked on it to begin with. It would literally be a couple bucks per month and no big help, in many cases. Now the question remains.....where are YOU going to find any empathy in your later years? Is your generation trying to build any? (Personally think it's much better to bank on money than on empathy, but what do I know?) So sorry to hear you feel the older generation has stolen something from the young. Maybe you'll find the heisted money in the vault at the Social Security Administration? (Hint: you won't find much of my money....it's already gone to pay my kids' expenses. Did your parents ever pay any of YOUR expenses to get you where you are today?