Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Social Security Message-ID: <950@ihuxp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 20:09:23 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxp.950 Posted: Thu Jan 10 20:09:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:36:35 EST References: <222@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> <580003@acf4.UUCP> <305@scc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 30 > > what of the guy who waits till he's 59.5, takes all the money out of > his IRA account, and losses it it (spends it/ gambles it, etc.). > > Now he's old, and broke. Does society support him, or let him starve?? > Ever hear the expression "Life sucks and then you die." Or perhaps a better expression would be "Awww, Too Bad." Anyway, I can't see many old timers who are always telling me about storing your nuts away for a rainy day (I think I have mixed my metaphors here) going and blowing it at the track. I think natural selection, i.e. survival of the fittest, would have pared him out of society a while before 59.5. But I could do it, you should see some cruises I have been looking at... > Society has to do something about people who are > too handicapped to work. Even Neandrathals did that. > We cannot ignore them, for even if they die, we have to > dispose of the bodies. You mean we should kill them and put them in the cooking pot. Or perhaps send them to Ethiopia to feed the starving? But what about the needy here? You're confusing me! Humble and Lovable (and even Huggable), Walt Pesch AT&T Technologies ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch