Re: Big purple digit

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> trinlay <trin1066@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> If politicians believed that most people sup****ted SS, why wouldn't
>>> they make it optional?  They must obviously know that it's actually
>>> very unpopular except among those already receiving it or who are
>>> just about to start doing so.
>
>> Social Security is sort of like the "School tax" even if you aren't
>> using it now, you may need it later, and it benefits everyone in
>> that, if you become disabled before you get to retirement age your
>> family and neighbors don't end up having to take care of you.
>
> You seem to be arguing that people should sup****t SS.  But I'm not
> arguing (in this message) that they shouldn't; I'm arguing that
> they don't.
>
> If most people sup****ted it, why would it need to be mandatory?
>
>> IF Social Security is really endangered, it's because of the
>> government occasionally raiding the fund to pay for other things.
>
> No, it's because it's a pyramid scheme.  Pyramid schemes can't
> last forever.

Only if population growth can't last forever.

Karl Johanson