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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (215472)	1/20/2005 2:43:01 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573901

>Of course you realize that the federal government will just spend any sort of "rainy day fund" like it's funny money. Apparently it will, when Republicans are in charge... >Actually, you're missing the biggest voting block: the middle class As I said, I used the term "poor" loosely... I was really including anyone below the "upper-middle" class, whatever that means anymore. >Or maybe you'd rather just change it for us GenXers. But then how do you determine "need" at retirement? Someone making minimum wage all his life is obvious, but what about the guy who made a decent living for most of his life, yet spent it on wild living or ran into some sort of hardship and retires bankrupt? Should he be "punished" for not having a 401k or IRA when he was able to? Which is why you really should give it to everyone, but the same amount to everyone. >I'm sure you can come up with some other plan, but the bottom line is that "welfare for the elderly" is problematic. Many people will fall through the cracks, while many others will game the system, and you'll still have poverty in society. Of course, but we'd have done the best we could, and that's admirable. -Z