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|    mxplztylc to vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.co    |
|    Re: Save Social Security: - bipartisan c    |
|    15 Feb 25 16:20:56    |
      XPost: alt.economics, or.politics, seattle.politics       XPost: fl.politics, talk.politics.misc       From: mxp@invalid.ca              On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:20:52 -0000 (UTC)       vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:              > Alva Myrdal invented Social Security as a form of population control       > on grounds folks had kids to provide for old age. SO now we need to       > import kids to pay elder pesions. Bear STearns went broke when the       > first boomer retired. Greece, GM & A&P went bankrupt because of       > pensions (abortion).       >              Yes the world and nation and society all morphed into some things       entirely different, as did our economy from agrarian and light       industrial into the consumer free for all it is now.              But in any service-heavy economy there is a need for paying for said       services.              Go on then - solve for income, maybe even use sin taxes to pay for all       retirement health care?              Astound me - propose something more than gripes.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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