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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Social Security
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 00:21:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 00:21:40 1985
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>[Ross M. Greenberg]
>
>It (replacing Social Security with IRA's or their ilk) sounds good BUT:
>
>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??

*Society* is nothing more than a figment of your imagination.
Figments of the imagination do not support people.

In other words, I take it, you want to know whether other people
should reward him for making a stupid mistake?!  You can if you
want to, but don't force me or anyone else to do so.

--
"Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
Ken Montgomery
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