Posted on 10/05/2011 10:04:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Politicians who are principled enough to point out the fraud of Social Security, referring to it as a lie and Ponzi scheme, are under siege. Acknowledgment of Social Security's problems is not the same as calling for the abandonment of its recipients. Instead, it's a call to take actions now, while there's time to avert a disaster. Let's look at it.
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I believe that a person who is 65 years old and has been forced into Social Security is owed something. But the question is, Who owes it to him? Congress has spent every penny of his Social Security "contribution." Young workers have no obligation to be fleeced in order to make up for the dishonesty and dereliction of Congress. The tragedy is that most seniors just want their money and couldn't care less about whom Congress takes it from.
Here's what might be a temporary fix: The federal government owns huge quantities of wasting assets – assets that are not producing anything – 650 million acres of land, almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States. In exchange for those who choose to opt out of Social Security and forsake any future claim, why not pay them off with 40 or so acres of land? Doing so would give us breathing room to develop a free-choice method to finance retirement.
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Idiocy, hope it is not catching.
Genus
I want to see a federal program to exchange federal bonds for land as well.
lets do it
I read this suggestion on ‘Zero Hedge’ a few days ago I think.
I guess it’s a possibility; but unless you can slay the spending dragon in Washington it would be a temporary fix at best.
You saying Walter Williams is an idiot?
Isn’t free land among the wall street protesters demands?
Hmm.. not sure if this is a good plan. So SS is traded for land. People move onto the land. Are unable/unwilling to make a living off of it. Or they sell it to buy drugs. They become destitute/hungry. They end up on welfare where they are supported for the rest of their lives by the government anyway.
Even if the government awarded land in lieu of SS payments, you just know it would turn right around and impose property taxes.
The EPA would forbid you from doing anything with the land, but it would be “yours”.
Where are you getting 'free' from?
I’m not. The occupy Wall Street morons are the ones who want “free” stuff.
Hmmm? No mule?
I believe high speed rail and infrastructure are the modern equivalent of a mule.
Besides, only a heartless rethuglican would enslave a mule.
As far as I’m concerned, any idiot who wants to join the wall street hating anarchy crowd may as well pin the swastika on their collar right now.
Most Federal land is high desert - sagebrush and rocks with no water.
I’ll gladly take that deal, as long as the parcel of land I get is smack in the middle of the Rocky Mountains.
“Hmmm? No mule?”
LOL!
40 acres of BLM, DOA or DOI scrub land. Does Williams realize that this land held in trust for the nation is primarily incompatible with sustainable agricultural practices today?
Now, if they were to offer whole sections with water and mineral rights, I might be interested.
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