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To: epicure who wrote (211096)	12/10/2012 10:36:36 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541761

"No one is owed a period of living off the government before they die. " Everyone is owed what they invested in the system, plus accumulated interest. "I see ss and medicare as an insurance scheme." SS is a pension. Medicare...health insurance scheme in which you make payments for about 40 years while not being able to use it; payments which continue your entire life. You're just going to have to accept that I have experience with hard labor" Most of us did, at some point; I spent my summers working in canneries. 15 months in a cannery, over a period of 5 years, ain't about much. 40 years in a period of 40 years breaks down the body a lot faster. I see noting "moral" in indenturing America's young" The elder already indentured themselves for those youths. It's payback time. I know those kids might not have wanted to go to school, or play in parks, or play on the streets the elders built, but they did it anyway. Now they have to pay it back.