[rb22982]

Somehow we suddenly stumbled onto something here after getting off the drug craze. What are we to do with those?

Harry Browne has had the best suggestions for SS and Medicare.

http://www.harrybrowne.org/GLO/SocialSecurity.htm
It's down at the bottom, but the entire article is thought provoking

[Torie]

Why don't you just out yourself, and give us YOUR opinion? Be brave and bold. Heck, I came out for gay marriage. Certainly you can do it if I can.

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

Wow!

The Future

Social Security isn't unique. It's a model of government in action — taking from some, giving to others, and promising more to everyone.

To keep the game going, the politicians make more and more promises without knowing who's going to pay for them. And so the liabilities mount up — until some future Congress has to deal with the situation by raising taxes, by reneging on some of the promises, and by restricting your freedom even further.

Economists have estimated that a young person entering the workforce today will have to pay 70% of his lifetime income in taxes just to cover all the promises already made for Social Security and other government schemes. But how many people will show up for work if 70% of their earnings is taken from them?

So eventually the government will be able to survive only by reducing drastically many of the "services" it has promised. One day your Social Security check will be cut. Or some banks will fail but the government insurance system won't have the money to cover all the losses. Or you'll get sick in your old age but Medicare will be so broke it can only hand you a booklet of first-aid tips from Dear Abby.

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The sad thing is that that we are in denial that there is a fox in the hen house