--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > Your views on Social Security as a "bad" thing are shared primarily by the > > right wing fringe minority. Oh wait! ...you DO belong to the right wing > > fringe minority! > > > [snip] > > > > Putting aside what I am or am not...and not relying on stereotypes, John, > what is it exactly about Social Security that you think is a GOOD thing? > > The trillion dollars a year that is paid out? > > The fact that people are FORCED to pay into it? > > That the contributions have INCREASED tenfold? > > That Social Security, as an annuity payment, is an insurance product and that > as such should be under state jurisdiction, NOT the federal government? > > That it is a legal Ponzi Scheme in every sense of the word? > > Please, John, tell us what you like about it and why the federal government > should be doing it as opposed to, say, individuals or the individual states? > Why the federal government and why it is some sort of model for healthcare > insurance (again, an area that is supposed to be the exclusive jurisdiction > of the states)? >
The people that are collecting don't see it as a problem. With the change in those working and those collecting tho it is now more of a ponzi operation.