Re: Simple boost to the economy

In news:gg5fa2425il@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Michael Coburn
<mikcob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 

> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:21:03 +0000, Bert Hyman wrote:
> 
>> In news:40l9i45oqadgqle2bualrbcpqm4t0g7447@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Mason C
>> <masoncXXX@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>> By the way, what's the relation between paying and collecting *now*?
>> 
>> None whatsoever.
>> 
>> SS is nothing but a wealth-transfer scheme. If this wasn't being done
>> by the government, the people running it would have been in prison
>> decades ago.
> 
> But they aren't and it is the best run government program in history.

Which isn't saying much, of course. A bad program that's well run? So
what? 
 
> If not for SS a lot of seniors would be quite dead.  

If not for SS, people would have found their own ways to finance their
retirements. 

> That may suit you.  Who knows?

You certainly don't.

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Bert Hyman	St. Paul, MN	bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]