From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!nscs!rmas70!mork-cb!jrm
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Social Security solution
Article-I.D.: mork-cb.168
Posted: Mon Jan 31 10:02:58 1983
Received: Wed Feb  2 03:47:53 1983

If SS were eliminated all you well meaning 28 year-olds would retire
with no means to support yourself until you check-out. Most people
have very short range vision and have trouble even saving up for
a car. How many of you have car loans????  

SS is at least a means of collecting funds from working individuals
to support a group of people (retirees) that may have not prepared
for retirement on their own. Chances are that left to their own
means we would have more street people, more starving and freezing
senior citizens. 

Before you flame-on and incinerate your tube, think... Maybe *you*
believe that it would not happen to you, and maybe *you* would be
able to prepare for retirement, but what about the majority??

I personally don't like the tax, I think that I could prepare
myself for retirement, but it's nice to have something to fall
back on *just in case*.

Have you ever read Charles Dickens? Think about the options available
to his down and out characters. Not very pretty. It would seem that
in such a rich (relative term) country as ours we could give the
masses a little peace of mind when looking forward to retirement.

enough...


j.r. miller - btl columbus