[sarasmom]

Just demonstrating that government programs are not set in stone. I used the GI Bill as an example of an instance where changes in cut-off dates, and program options did not benefit me, personally.They were of great and I believe proper benefit to those before me, and those after me.I would have loved them, but I was outside the dates.

SS has to change greatly.I am not altruistic when I say I am willing to suffer the pangs of the required cuttoff.I would consider it sunk cost, as long as it stops somewhere,preferably before my childs generation has to fund my generation.

[dwills]

SS is all of what the author charged, but mostly it's a safety net

do you really think that america would let irresponsible seniors die in the streets? hell, we don't let nature take its course in the 3rd world

perhaps it would be more honest to see who doesn't provide for their future and let them wear the scarlet W, but a forced savings plan isn't the worst travesty if we were allowed to invest it

in a utopia, perhaps we could provide incentives to saving so attractive that very few would pass them up and simultaneously make welfare less attractive (eg, dorms not dwellings and a work requirement, even for senior recipients--licking envelopes or whatever)--then you might not need to 'force' savings