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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (56712)	11/5/2004 10:13:46 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 81568

SS also helps the disabled.

To: geode00 who wrote (56712)	11/6/2004 7:42:16 AM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

The expansion of SS into SSI and a whole bunch of other areas was a latter day innovation of the JFK-LBJ era and is at the root of the Social Security funding problem. Unearned entitlements are just bad policy, period. Charity is the way to aid the needy, that way they go "hat-in-hand" to request aid and don't come to look upon the aid as a "right". Contribute all you can, each of you to your favorite charity. The depression was not caused concentration of wealth but was mainly a result of the fact that the vast majority of the nations population lived on the farm in an era of rising farm productivity and falling farm commodity prices. The collectivist idea died with the collapse of the communist world. It will just take a while for people who grew up during a period when the majority of the world people lived under collectivist systems, even some of those who lived in the "capitalist" world, to accept the idea that socialism is dead. Slagle