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Old 10-21-2010, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Honus View Post
I'm no economist, but it seems to me that SS has been clicking along for 70+ years without missing a beat. It needs adjustments to keep itself solvent, but I don't think we should scrap it.

One problem with letting people be responsible for their own retirement is that many people just won't do it. What do we do with them? Let them starve out in the street?
'GM has been doing that too if you don't count the bailouts.

So let them starve. Let them be an example to the younger generation as to what happens when you don't take care of yourselves. If you kid doesn't want to stop sucking on Mama's Tit, what do you do? At the rip old age of 55, he still will be sucking on Mama and crapping in diapers.
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