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