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

To: Stefan who wrote (60690)	5/26/1999 2:10:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 132070

(OT) Maybe I will but maybe not for long, most of the circle I ran and worked with are already dead, dam few of them ever lived long enough to get any SSI, it seems it's the ones who had an easy life that worry so much about it. But the bottom line is it wouldn't be in any sad shape , or cost more than a few pennies a week if the fat cats hadn't jacked it around and found a way to turn it into a slush fund, it turned into just one more way bleed the ones who could afford the cost the less. People were not suppose to want to collect on it, it was suppose to just be a safety net for them that had bad breaks or to help out the widows and orphans, the "I" on the end was for insurance it wasn't meant to be Entitlement, or an annuity , or such. People were suppose to hope they didn't need it, just who screwed it up, ( not the little guy & tahts for sure ). I would think people would understand when they paid insurance they were not suppose to want to have to collect. It was put in place back when no companies ( or dam few ) had any thing like retirement or any other type of compensation for the families of the workers they killed off. And by the way do you have any idea of how many retirement funds have gone bust and or ripped off their employees that the government has turned a blind eye to. A hell of a lot more than I want to list. And I'll add we still have a huge work force that is trapped into doing the dirty work, that the big boys sub out to fly by night contractors who are here today gone tomorrow, most of the raw work is still being done ( at least in Texas ) by people who don't have any type of retirement. A lot of it below minimum wage too. No one want's to look at taht though. Jim