Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!inc From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Social Security Message-ID: <496@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 14:11:49 EST Article-I.D.: tpvax.496 Posted: Wed Jan 9 14:11:49 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 06:44:55 EST References: <222@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> <3244@alice.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 37 > In 1980, the Libertarian Party had what sounds like a > workable way to get rid of Social Security: shoot it > between the eyes. > > People now on Social Security would receive whatever benefits > they would have received otherwise. People who had not > yet started getting money back would received decreased > benefits based on their contributions to date, and would > be able to make up the difference by investing their > gains meanwhile. > > The whole thing would be financed by selling off all the land > that the Federal Government owns and has not developed. > It turns out that the two numbers just about match. Hey, Folks! SS was invented to provide at least some minimal level of income for all. If it's not working, I say let's fix it. It's a good idea, one that I am convinced keeps people from starving to death after they've spent their life's earnings. If it were done away with or made voluntary, then you're going to have LOTS of people who don't know enough to save either living in abject poverty or on the welfare rolls, or more probably both. Sell undeveloped Federal lands? You must be joking! I like the idea that some of this country is held in trust, that we don't have unfettered "development" of the continent. I like wild areas. You sell off all the land, and you're going to wind up with even more snowmobile parks and K-Marts. SPECIAL OFFER:: OWN A PIECE OF THE GRAND CANYON! I've heard a lot of hare-brained nonsense on this network, but this idea is just such a piece of horse pucky I can't believe it. -- Gary Benson ms232e -*- John Fluke Mfg Co -*- Box C9090 -*- Everett WA 98206 USA {microsoft,allegra,ssc-vax,sun,sb1}{decvax,ihnp4,tektronix!uw-beaver}!fluke!inc