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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (213730)	12/21/2004 5:09:43 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578445

The way your house insurance works is that the insured (you) typically pay the insurance company a heck of a lot more than they'll ever payout during the insured's lifetime. The way Social Security works is that the recipient typically gets more than they pay in to the system. So it's the exact opposite of insurance...which is why Social Security is slowly going bankrupt and will finally run out of money by 2042. I'm not saying I don't like getting something more than what I pay in, but I AM saying that this system is not sustainable.