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Originally Posted by azimuth
i prefer freedom over the promise of security provided by the likes of govt...
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Social Security is not a promise of security. It is real security and has been real security for 70 years.
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i know what SSI is. it is law and it is no longer solvent because the pecuniarily responsible spent the money. it was a poorly managed good intention to fix a desparate problem...temporarily...
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I appreciate the concession that there was a "deparate problem".
As for Social Security being a temporary solution, it hasn't missed a beat for 70 years and is projected to remain 100% solvent for about another 50, with or without adjustments. With some good faith tweaking it can remain permanently solvent. So, if we can survive until 2008, maybe we can elect some people who will be willing to act in good faith.
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...i'll never accept the existence of corruption as a justifaction for the existence or promotion of communism...
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Who is promoting communism? You keep returning to that point. Do you really think SS is a communist program?
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... it is a bad thing as implemented by men....
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True.
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it fosters the loss of individual freedom and the loss of the human spirit/will...
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So does starvation.
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give me liberty of give me death.
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Good sentiment, but wouldn't the elimination of Social Security return us to the "desparate problem" you mentioned earlier?