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To: Road Walker who wrote (358316)	11/13/2007 4:46:46 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586893

I was happy to pay it, and thought it was a tax worth paying - unlike the 20k Bush's dumbass war will cost me. Not only that, as a self-employed person, for about 12 years I paid the employer's AND the employee portion. It helped my grandparents and my parents. My father died young, and my mom depended partly on survivor benefits to raise my younger sister and later SS helped her ( and me, my brother and sister ) with her retirement. Maybe Ten's parents don't get SS and he just doesn't feel the benefit? I thought Asians respected their elders?

To: Road Walker who wrote (358316)	11/13/2007 7:37:54 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1586893

>Funny, I really don't remember people bitching about SS until the last 15 years or so. When I was young, people thought it was a pretty good idea, something to be proud of as a society. It's because it took conservatives several decades to intelligently (and underhandedly) change their line from "Social Security is Communism and shouldn't exist," which was absurd to most Americans, to "Social Security is unsustainable," which seems to resonate with a lot of people, even if it isn't true. Massaging the message... -Z