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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (184416)	3/9/2004 6:18:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572758

Al, His savings and SS just barely cover his needs. W/O SS and medicare he would be unable to get by. Do you think he is getting charity? Sorry to hear about your father's Alzheimer's. However, you just made my point for me. To you, your father is entitled to his Social Security benefits because of what he went through. The charity has now turned into an entitlement. No longer do the benefits represent the donations of the youth who are able to give up part of their paycheck for the care of the elderly. Now the benefits represent a right, something that belongs to the elderly by nature of their very being. There is no charity involved, just an abstract idea called The Great Society, i.e. government. By the way, I'm sure you'd cover the costs of your father's health care and living expenses if it weren't for Social Security. Heck, you probably already do through your own SS taxes. (Or perhaps you still pay directly, but that would be just the difference between his benefits and the actual costs.) Assuming this would be the case, at least your father can trust you to take care of him if Social Security were to collapse or be eliminated. Maybe if more children felt this way, we'd have much less of a need for Social Security (except once again for the childless seniors). Instead, the system exists, and people are feeling less and less inclined to care for their parents. No worries, society will take care of them. But anything society does (i.e. government) eventually turns into an entitlement. That's the connection between the decline of morality (or in this case, family responsibility) and Social Security. But I guess you'll never see this connection as long as you see Social Security as a God-given entitlement to be financed by some abstract entity. Was Janet Jackson's breast exposure somehow connected with SS? Is abortion or gay marriage or whatever offends you connected with SS or welfare or minimum wage? How? It's a Brave New World. Too bad every other attempt at Brave New Worlds resulted in societal collapse. Tenchusatsu