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)