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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (672303)	2/15/2005 2:28:52 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I agree with much of what you say. Here's a question worth pondering, though. Should the government provide no safety net for its citizens? Not a forced one. We are not slaves. We are born free agents by right of nature. What about a person who works hard, prudently puts away money for retirement in "safe" investments, then sees his savings decimated just when its time to retire because the markets crash? What about a person who works hard, etc., then sees his savings literally stolen in broad daylight by government inflation, or sees his social security "savings" inflated away, or sees his social security threatened by a crisis that we by turns claim exists and does not exist? There are no guarantees here, friend, not even government sponsored guarantees. It is all a gamble. There are opportunities for success and failure everywhere. The best we can do is act in such a way where we are not intentionally the cause of another's failure. When government forcibly takes money from someone and then forces them to invest it (whether in SS or in Bush's thing), then should that investment go belly up, government is directly to be blamed. Even should government force us to invest and our investment does well, the idea that the government forced us to eat and live a certain way should be nauseating to any freedom-loving American. We ought to be free to make our own choices, including choices that hopefully allow us to retire comfortably as we conceive comfort.