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To: ManyMoose who wrote (514791)	10/18/2012 3:06:51 PM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794301

The worker to recipient ratio for SS keeps declining. In my opinion it was a mistake from the beginning. Your dad was a wise man. My Dad, born in 1914, quit school at the age of 14 in order to support his family after his father died. He was a roughneck in the oilfields when Roosevelt was elected and later served from 1938 to 1946 in the US Marine Corps. He got his HS diploma two years after I was born. After that he was a self-employed businessman. He thought it was a dumb idea to trust the Russians, and dumb to create a dependent society with Social Security. As far as I know, he did not get a SS check. Mom neither. * * *