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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stefan who wrote (60675)	5/26/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

In my life I wrote more letters to Condressman, and such than I care to count, and now feel like a fool for having even tried. People live in the illusion that by writing them you can change anything they don't already want changed, and if they do pick up on something it's only because they see a way to get some PR mileage out of it. At 62 it's not my problem any more, you youngsters are the ones who have to live with it, all I'm doing is tipping you off. SS was a good deal, if they wouldn't have screwed it up & it wouldn't cost near what you might think. I'm telling you they sacked it for years and turn it into an entitlement program , which it was never meant to be. There was nothing wrong with it except the Insurance companies were scared shitless they may not get to pull their scams, so they sent in stooges to be sure to screw it up. It was started when over 3/4ths the insurance companies in the nation welched on their policies..and a few people felt we had some responsibility to the working poor who actually built the country. And to the Widows and orphans who were created by the high risk jobs , while companies just twiddle their mustaches and brought in new help as fast as they killed off a man never blinking an eye and in most cases didn't even pay funeral expenses. Jim