Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Social Security Message-ID: <1166@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 00:21:40 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1166 Posted: Wed Jan 9 00:21:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:28:39 EST References: <222@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> <580003@acf4.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 22 [] >[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 ...!{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ut-ngp.ARPA [for Arpanauts only]