From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!bunker!steve Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc Title: Re: Social Security Article-I.D.: bunker.201 Posted: Wed Jan 26 10:10:10 1983 Received: Fri Jan 28 21:05:37 1983 References: hplabs.1125 dciem.153 I agree with you 100% we should take care of our parents and grandparents who made it possible for us to live and work and share in this country. What I dissagree with is the premiss that my parents and grandparents are the governments responcibility. They are not.They are mine !! Milions of our older people(my grandmother included) thought that they wrer going to be able to retire on the government SS program. This program was started when an 8th grade education was concidered well educatated and children were working in sweatshops. People believed what the government told them and maybe the government believed it to. SS was realy supposed to SUPLEMENT privite plans such as pensions, investments, and savings(remember when people saved for retirement) but when all these people retired verry few of them had anything long term put away and besides the government had been saving for them. Well these people screwed up and we can't abandon them now but I would like a choise of wether or not to partisipate in SS. Get me out and pay those who are still in from general revenue untill they all die out. That takes care of them and lets me take care of mine. steve (bunker)