OT: Soc Sec.

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>"Jean-Pierre A. Radley" wrote:
>> 
>> Greg Widdows propounded (on Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:39:50PM -0400):
>> | SOCIAL SECURITY:
>> 
>> Stuff it, Greg.
>> 
>> Let's NOT do politics on the filePro list, even if you've marked the
>> message as OT.
>
>Especially when it's mostly myth and legend.  Go to the horse's mouth:
>
>    http://www.ssa.gov/history/InternetMyths.html
>and
>    http://www.ssa.gov/history/InternetMyths2.html

I first learned about the Social Security Ponzi scam when I was selling
insurance in 1965 (for Lennie Rosenberg's brother, Ted, which gives this a
very tenuous FilePro link :-).  It's never been anything but a nice
sounding way to suck money into the general fund where it's used to buy
votes from people who want others to support them.  The Social Security
``fund'' is nothing but a bunch of IOUs which obligate future tax payers to
repay the ``loans'' that went into the general fund.

>Follow-ups set.  ;-)
>(Unless the list manager strips it.)

Not me.

Bill
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