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.