From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: S.S.
Article-I.D.: watarts.1645
Posted: Tue Jan 25 10:26:27 1983
Received: Fri Jan 28 06:11:46 1983
Reply-To: bernie@watarts (Bernie Roehl)
References: ucbvax.661

...further to the above, some people are curious "who's to blame" for the
social security mess.  The fact is, no one person or organization is at
fault; it's the very *idea* of social security.  If people were responsible
enough to save up for their old age on their own, there'd be no problem;
the trouble is, the government has taken that responsibility away from people
and allowed them to become dependent on goverment support.  Forcing people to
retire at 65 aggravates the problem even more; it increases the average length
of time that someone is unproductive and hence dependent on the government.