Re: Bush Finally Comes Clean on Social Security

From: Jerry Okamura (okamuraj005_at_hawaii.rr.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:45:26 GMT

"al Guacamole" <aet@lava.net> wrote in message
news:1111604561.154759.201720@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>
> Lamont Cranston wrote:
>> Jerry Okamura wrote:
>>
>> > Why do you want to "save" a system that
>> > relegates
>> > the poorest among us to live around the
>> > poverty
>> > level?
>>
>> It doesn't relegate anyone to anything. It
>> provides a guaranteed
> income and
>> keeps some folks from living well below the
>> poverty level.
>
> It's insurance. But looks like Jerry knows how
> to increase our
> benefits? Definitely, it should go up for poor
> elderly who depend on
> only SS payments to make ends meet.
>

Sure there is an answer. Increase the benefits to
those at the lowest end, and stop giving money to
those who do not need it. Of course any
politician who recommends such a position will
probably be voted out of office the next time they
run.

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