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Old 10-20-2010, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by MTI View Post
Aklim, your "ponzi scheme" analogy fails in one respect, investors in Social Security aren't private sector

or voluntary.
What has being in the private sector or not got to do with anything? Do crooks only reside in the private sector and there are no crooks in govt? Really?

Yes, you are right that we are pressganged into the thing while Madoff's victims went willingly.

Edit: OTOH, Both groups were led into the respective programs with promises of great things in the future.
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