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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (75479)	6/4/2018 11:01:42 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 363858

>> Have you no empathy or compassion? Of course I do. I just have the good sense to weigh the costs vs. the benefit in a sensible manner. >> Imagine how many old people were suffering from abject poverty in 1940 when it started ???!!! Unfortunately, there were no real statistics on the subject in 1940. But one thing we know for certain: Those lifted out of poverty between 1940 and now were largely due, not to Social Security, but to free enterprise. Free enterprise, which brought us such things as air conditioning, television, radio, cable TV, DVDs, recorded music, and other entertainment, better automobiles, dirt cheap medications like naproxen, life-saving cancer drugs that are also reasonable now like Taxol and Taxotere, and within the next 20 years, likely cancer cures for many or most cancers; treatments for Diabetes and better living spaces. This is free enterprise. The cost, OTOH, is that the pyramid will ultimately collapse and though it is difficult to predict, it is reasonable assume a 30s styled Depression, probably worse, with many of those nice things withdrawn, and forcing many in younger generations to effectively start over. >> Are you on social security? Do you get any federal aid? I do not, and will never draw much (I'm old enough but have deferred applying for personal reasons). I have never received any "aid" from anyone, other than my dad who gave me $2,500 when I got married to help us buy a house and a banker who was willing to lend me $3,000 to go to graduate school on. >> Half the old people in the country rely on social security today to survive. I'm not sure what you're suggesting but that is NOT a good thing.