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To: Constant Reader who wrote (689)	6/11/2005 1:44:09 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 544111

Rules of politics Yes, I understand the rules. Too bad we let ourselves get into this in the first place. It's easier to avoid than to recover from, politically speaking. But if we could get enough political capital together to "reform" SS, there's a chance. The problem with SS is that it makes it socially acceptable to live off a check from the government. The nuances get lost and an earned check from the government looks and spends just like an unearned check from the government. Perhaps that could be reversed with a symbolic change. If, for example, we could get the retirement benefits under SS assigned to a private company that offered a variety of annuity payouts, then the check wouldn't come from the government, so maybe it would be possible to reframe government checks as something beneath the middle class, something responsible people try to avoid.