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To: Road Walker who wrote (358310)	11/13/2007 4:20:48 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586987

Ten is just a bad American that doesn't want to fulfill his part of the social compact as we did for our elders. SS was never intended to be a full retirement plan for anybody.

To: Road Walker who wrote (358310)	11/13/2007 4:21:47 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586987

JF, > And like my parents were a burden on me? With the way SS is structured, you would have to maintain the current ratio of workers to retirees to keep it solvent. Like I told Z, if you really want SS to be "welfare for the elderly" (Chris indirectly supports this notion via "means testing"), there are much better ways to structure it. Or if you want SS to be a government-forced savings program, there are ways to accomplish that as well, such as what Bush originally proposed way back in 2000. The way it is right now would have worked in FDR's time, but not in the future. Tenchusatsu