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To: 8bits who wrote (144303)	9/16/2010 5:12:56 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541006

<<<"The numbers just don't look sustainable as they are now " and I gave my list of likely solutions. It's not a scare tactic, it's reality.>>> The word sustainability "is derived from the Latin sustinere (tenere, to hold; sus, up). Dictionaries provide more than ten meanings for sustain, the main ones being to “maintain", "support", or "endure”." When used in the context of Social Security it has taken on large political meaning. The last time social security was adjusted, they intended to set the system up so that it would not have to be adjusted as soon as it has. That was an error in demographic anomally that Alan Greenspan has acknowledged. (I don't want to go through all the crap again to find it again - but we have gone over it many times on this thread). Even Greenspan thinks that it is an easy fix and that because of demographic anomalies will always need adjusting every so often to reflect changing demographics - and it can go either way - up or down.