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To: Greedy Geezer
So because previous generations made the mistake of funding their retirement from their kids future earnings we shouldn't learn from their mistake?

That's why most people vote democrat. "My grand daddy was a democrat, my daddy was a democrat and I havn't learned anything either"!
46 posted on 02/22/2005 11:42:03 PM PST by Dan Walsh
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To: Dan Walsh
So because previous generations made the mistake of funding their retirement from their kids future earnings we shouldn't learn from their mistake?

Social Security was never intended to be either a sole retirement program nor a vehicle for health care let alone a great big piggy bank for gutless politicians who have squandered trillions of contributions.

I have a couple of great aunts still alive today who started paying into Social Security from Day One during the depression and deserve every penny. They may not have paid as great a percentage of their earnings as you may but they also didn't have the loopholes you do.

Since you have chosen to avoid answering your slam against one of your tenants who may or may not be collecting SSDI/SSI perhaps we should return to your original request which was to give you some feedback on your style.

1. Learn the facts about the origin and current activities of the SSA.

2. Don't make up scary scenarios which are not part of the plan for privatization.

3. Don't make claims you refuse to verify and then hide.

4. Don't play the bully; there are too many of them around here right now.

5. Finally, the old geezers you have maligned probably gave you the opportunity to be the very important person you describe and should only be faulted for not smacking you one up the side the head when you were about ten and thereafter every time you opined on subjects not understood by you.

51 posted on 02/23/2005 8:58:52 AM PST by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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